Virginia · Nonprofit
SEA LION FOUNDATION
SEA LION FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being DOMINION ENERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($40,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $40k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $41k
What Sea Lion Foundation does
Mission
Restoration of ships
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To education people on history of the ship
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2k to $41k (+2629%).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SEA LION FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of SEA LION FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 LION FOUNDATION receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,184 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like SEA LION FOUNDATION
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 LION FOUNDATION: 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 LION FOUNDATION?
- SEA LION FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being DOMINION ENERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($40,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEA LION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $40,000 in grants to SEA LION FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of SEA LION FOUNDATION?
- DOMINION ENERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEA LION FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2022–2022), and the filings of 1 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