Florida · Nonprofit
SeaLegacy Foundation Inc
SeaLegacy Foundation Inc (Florida) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $770,390 to it, the largest being THE PETERFFY FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $770k
- Net assets
- $0
What SeaLegacy Foundation Inc does
Mission
To inspire people to fall in love with the ocean, amplify a network of changemakers around the world, and catalyze hands-on diplomacy through hopeful, world-class visual storytelling.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Produced three (3) episodes of A Sea of Hope, spotlighting some of the world's most important conservation opportunities that are being championed by ou co-founders and transformative front-line partners. These impact campaigns include:Aotearoa New Zealand: The Beauty and The Barrens, a focus on NZ's 30X30 opportunityProtecting the Reef Documenting the bleaching of Australia's Great Barrier ReefProtecting the Bight Documenting Australia's Southern Right WhaleLeveraging world-class content to expand the audience: In addition to our popular A Sea of Hope impact campaign series, Sealegacy also produced three episodes of educational 'gateway' content published under our Marine Museum portfolio. These episodes included:Marine Museum: Underwater Swim with Giant Mantas Marine Museum: Coral Reef AdventureMarine Museum: Underwater Journey - Humpback WhalesAdvancing our focus on content management a comprehensive content organizational plan was approved to allow for seamless access to content. This process will revolutionize the operational work flows internally (driving down costs for staff, increasing efficiencies) and will help to make content easily accessible for external partners and…
$947,620 spentof which $155,015 as grants65% of program spendingOur content created Billions of engagements, and 1st time opportunities to grow our audience Through world class campaigns and significant amplification from our co-founders. This amplification and distribution generated valuable world-class earned media and significant fundraising.We further activated our campaigns by creating ocean explainers that provided a wealth of scientific and conservation insights to our audiences. These distribution amplifiers created by Sealegacy include:Ocean SchoolOcean Insight Explainers
$291,575 spent20% of program spendingSeaLegacy partnered with some of the world's leading ocean conservation funders and partners to create campaigns designed to educate the general population and elected officials with a goal of significantly growing marine protected areas (MPA)s. MPAs help to rewild our ocean, protect front-line communities, and maintain the ocean's overall resilience.SeaLegacy was the communication agency of record to help the Dominican Republic (DR) announce their momentous 30x30 protections the first in the Caribbean. This campaign was also created in partnership with the DR and key conservation funding partners. It was also a center-point for the 2024 Our Ocean Greece conference. Sealegacy was able to broadly distribute this campaign to a large global general population and was also able to use this campaign as an ocean diplomacy tool, to encourage other potential blue leaders to take the leap into 30x30 for their countries, and follow in the footsteps of the DR. A link to the campaign
$218,680 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,457,875.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.5M to $0 (−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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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.
Board chair
John Ryan Kissick
Board Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $47k → $573k.
8 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 SeaLegacy Foundation Inc’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
SeaLegacy Foundation Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
63% 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 SeaLegacy Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 53% · 2023 35% — 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.
Where its funders are
SeaLegacy Foundation Inc draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $248k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like SeaLegacy Foundation 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SeaLegacy Foundation 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 SeaLegacy Foundation Inc?
- SeaLegacy Foundation Inc (Florida) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $770,390 to it, the largest being THE PETERFFY FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SeaLegacy Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $770,390 in grants to SeaLegacy Foundation Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SeaLegacy Foundation Inc?
- THE PETERFFY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SeaLegacy Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 20 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