California · Nonprofit
SEA HUGGER
SEA HUGGER (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,463 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($30,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $103k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $139k
- Net assets
- $-247
What Sea Hugger does
Mission
Sea Hugger inspires people to connect with and care for the marine environment by fostering stewardship through education and action, especially among the youth, to protect our oceans and ensure a sustainable future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Program achievements: 1. Donated one more cigarette butt bin to a business in the harbor. 2. Tabled at 18 events. 3. Spoke at two schools. 4. Hosted three field trips with bay area schools. 5. Hosted four private beach cleanups with business. 6. Financially supported litter4tokens, a south african ngo, that employs locals to clean the beaches in exchange for food, clothing, and household necessities. 7. Financially supported trash4tokens in mexico that has the same mission as litter4tokens. 8. Advocated for 18 federal and state conservation laws and ordinances. 9. Participated in a coalition to protect 30% of our world's oceans by 2030. 10. Participated in a coalition to create a global plastics treaty. 11. Participated in one other global plastic reduction coalition
$44,116 spentof which $4,750 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $44,116.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $65k to $12 (−100%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of SEA HUGGER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $425.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SEA HUGGER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
SEA HUGGER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
71% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SEA HUGGER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 63% · 2020 96% · 2021 53% · 2022 53% · 2023 63% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
20% of SEA HUGGER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
85% of SEA HUGGER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $64k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
SEA HUGGER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SEA HUGGER
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEA HUGGER: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SEA HUGGER?
- SEA HUGGER (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,463 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($30,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEA HUGGER have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $139,463 in grants to SEA HUGGER, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEA HUGGER?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $30,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEA HUGGER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 13 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing