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SEA MERCY

SEA MERCY (Oregon) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $249,690 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($108,440). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$26k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$250k
Net assets
$261k
0/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Sea Mercy does

Mission

Sea Mercy operates a volunteer fleet of vessels to meet the disaster and critical care needs for "remote" islanders in the south pacific. Our simple vision and mission is to "stand in the gap" with trained health volunteers, support equipment, and free critical care services until island nations develop their "outer island" health care infrastructure, when critical health care need opportunities are present, or when disasters occur.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Floating healthcare clinic and disaster relief to the south pacific regions of tonga & fiji.

  2. Water desalination and give sight/give light programs.

  3. Landing craft program & overall south pacific operations.

  4. The growing a future school farm is a year-round and comprehensive hands-on teaching and training program for k-12 students and community members. It is a 3 acre farm with plenty of open field planting areas, a greenhouse, composting center and a 20' training center yurt sitting in the middle to facilitate teaching and training programs that will help expand areas of learning and knowledge.

    $26,000 spent
    100% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,000.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($83k) Expenses 100 ($95k) Net assets 100 ($134k)2018 Revenue 233 ($193k) Expenses 102 ($96k) Net assets 172 ($231k)2019 Revenue 16 ($13k) Expenses 41 ($39k) Net assets 153 ($205k)2020 Revenue 284 ($235k) Expenses 253 ($240k) Net assets 150 ($201k)2021 Revenue 265 ($219k) Expenses 154 ($145k) Net assets 204 ($274k)2022 Revenue 27 ($22k) Expenses 52 ($49k) Net assets 184 ($247k)2023 Revenue 54 ($44k) Expenses 25 ($24k) Net assets 200 ($268k)2024 Revenue 32 ($26k) Expenses 36 ($34k) Net assets 194 ($261k)
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Revenue (32)Expenses (36)Net assets (194)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $140k to $238k (+70%).

$140k
$238k
$213k
$208k
$274k
$247k
$268k
$261k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 1% · 2020 19% · 2021 20% · 2023 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

52% of SEA MERCY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$12k
’17
$97k
’18
−$26k
’19
−$5k
’20
$74k
’21
−$27k
’22
$21k
’23
−$8k
’24
92
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed44444444
Joined·+0+0+1+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0010000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $100k → $41k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 MERCY’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 MERCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

60% 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 MERCY.

43%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

60% of SEA MERCY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $100k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 2 states.

ID
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’21
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SEA MERCY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,898 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−29% · below the median
Months of reserve92.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−15% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,898 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Government funding SEA MERCY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $87k on record.

State$87k
Top programs
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$87k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like SEA MERCY

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 Oregon

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 23%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEA MERCY: 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 MERCY?
SEA MERCY (Oregon) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $249,690 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($108,440). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SEA MERCY have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $249,690 in grants to SEA MERCY.
Who is the largest funder of SEA MERCY?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $108,440 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SEA MERCY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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