Texas · Nonprofit
SEA TURTLE INC
SEA TURTLE INC (Texas) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,384,254 to it, the largest being MUSK FOUNDATION ($4,164,530). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $7.4M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Sea Turtle Inc does
Mission
Sea Turtle Inc. Rescues, rehabilitates, and releases injured sea turtles, educates the public, and assists with conservation efforts for all marine turtle species.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The education program's objectives focus on educating and providing information to the public on conservation, marine sea turtles, rehabilitation, and being good ocean stewards. The objectives are accomplished via onsite education, field trips, and virtual programs and field trips. Through our education center onsite visitors learn about our mission and programs. Visitors have access to our turtle resident center and rehabilitation hospital. Students and general public visitors to our facility learn about our mission via field trips, online, and onsite education programs.
$685,730 spentof which $65,429 as grants$1,063,814 earned by the program28% of program spendingOur rehabilitation efforts included turtle rescues, rehabilitation, releasing turtles back to the gulf of mexico, and educational programs for school children and general public visiting our facilities. Our rehabilitation center provided care to sick and injured turtles, and sea turtles that live in our facility permanently. We retrieved doa turtles and successfully released turtles into the ocean. The rehabilitation program includes providing sea turtles with medical treatment, medication, scans, surgeries, and any other treatment or rehabilitation needed to treat the injured or sick turtles.
$757,540 spentof which $40,774 as grants$911,449 earned by the program31% of program spendingConservation efforts include beach patrols, nest protection, excavation, corral creating and oversight. Each year from march to september, we patrol by foot and atv more than 50 miles of beach to watch and respond to nesting female sea turtles. Our patrolling efforts resulted in locating turtle nests, excavation, and protection of thousands of eggs and the release of hatching sea turtles.
$1,011,531 spentof which $100,632 as grants$911,452 earned by the program41% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,454,801.
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.
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 $12M to $17M (+45%).
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: 2020 74% · 2021 36% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of SEA TURTLE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Wendy Knight
CEO
Board chair
Robin Farris
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $59k → $457k.
18 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $87k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sea Turtle Inc Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SEA TURTLE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of SEA TURTLE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 funders by total. 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 TURTLE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 57% · 2019 54% · 2020 36% · 2021 31% · 2022 73% · 2023 33% — 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
41% of SEA TURTLE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
79% of SEA TURTLE INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $920k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 TURTLE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding SEA TURTLE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $28k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$28k
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 TURTLE INC
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Sea Turtle Inc Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEA TURTLE INC: 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 TURTLE INC?
- SEA TURTLE INC (Texas) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,384,254 to it, the largest being MUSK FOUNDATION ($4,164,530). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEA TURTLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $7,384,254 in grants to SEA TURTLE INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEA TURTLE INC?
- MUSK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,164,530 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEA TURTLE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 69 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