California · Nonprofit
SUSTAINABLE FISHERY ADVOCATES
SUSTAINABLE FISHERY ADVOCATES (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,905,881 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($4,570,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Sustainable Fishery Advocates does
Mission
Fishwise is a non-profit sustainable seafood consultancy with a mission to sustain ocean ecosystems and the people who depend on them by transforming seafood supply chains. In the 20+ years since its founding, fishwise has redefined responsible business practices in the seafood industry, driving greater accountability and oversight for the environmental and social impacts of seafood production. Fishwise achieves its mission through a combined approach of 1) longstanding partnerships with seafood companies 2) by amplifying impact via collaboration and collective action, and 3) by advocating for transparent, traceable, legal, and ethical seafood supply chains.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Human rights due diligence (hrdd) in now a global expectation for companies, reflected in laws, trade requirements, and investor standards. Yet for many seafood businesses, the path from principle to practice remains unclear. In 2025, fishwise relaunched rise, a free, publicly available platform that provided practical guidance and a roadmap for seafood companies to combat forced labor and operationalize human rights due diligence (hrdd). The relaunch generated over 25,000 visits from more than 130 countries, with companies reporting that rise helped translate global expectations for responsible business conduct into tangible improvements for workers across seafood supply chains.
$1,090,372 spent$531,187 earned by the program33% of program spendingFishwise's business partnerships reach more than 466 suppliers worldwide and have expanded access to sustainable seafood across nearly 5,000 u.s. Grocery stores. In 2024, fishwise independently assessed over 115 million tons of seafood to verify compliance with sustainability commitments made by its business partners.fishwise also continued to raise the bar for establishing industry-leading sustainable seafood programs with companies, bringing transparency into supply chains through cutting-edge tools like our vessel risk dashboard, and elevating the field through visible leadership and advocacy.
$878,180 spent$318,995 earned by the program27% of program spendingPromoting and advancing comprehensive sustainability within the aquaculture sector. Fishwise is working to achieve positive environmental, social, and economic outcomes in aquaculture by fostering greater collaboration among smallholder producers, local communities, supply chain actors, governments, and other stakeholders. By aligning community-defined priorities with market incentives, fishwise is driving coordinated improvements that support resilient livelihoods, responsible production practices, and sustainable seafood supply chains.
$750,856 spent$191,673 earned by the program23% of program spendingTraceability and counter-iuu fishing program; illegal, unreported, and unregulated (iuu) fishing is a global threat that jeopardizes the health of ocean ecosystems, fuels human rights abuses, and undercuts law-abiding seafood businesses. Over the past decade, fishwise has emerged as a global leader in advancing supply chain traceability and transparency- the ability to access information and track seafood from harvest to market- as a powerful mechanism to combat iuu fishing and forced labor in seafood production. With governments, ngos, and industry partners, fishwise is driving knowledge exchange, policy reform, and collective action towards legal, traceable, and ethical seafood supply chains.
$578,765 spent$19,580 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,298,173.
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 2017 to 2018, from $2.7M to $1.7M (−37%).
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: 2017 5% · 2018 36% · 2019 24% · 2020 43% · 2021 43% · 2022 32% · 2023 18% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of SUSTAINABLE FISHERY ADVOCATES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Jennifer A Barker
Executive director
Board chair
Richard Stavis
Chair
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 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $1.9M.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 SUSTAINABLE FISHERY ADVOCATES’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
SUSTAINABLE FISHERY ADVOCATES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 98% · 2019 91% · 2020 54% · 2021 100% · 2022 47% · 2023 50% — 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
29% of SUSTAINABLE FISHERY ADVOCATES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
SUSTAINABLE FISHERY ADVOCATES draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
SUSTAINABLE FISHERY ADVOCATES is better cushioned than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SUSTAINABLE FISHERY ADVOCATES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.3M on record.
- Agency for International Development$6.3M
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 SUSTAINABLE FISHERY ADVOCATES
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.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
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 SUSTAINABLE FISHERY ADVOCATES: 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 SUSTAINABLE FISHERY ADVOCATES?
- SUSTAINABLE FISHERY ADVOCATES (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,905,881 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($4,570,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUSTAINABLE FISHERY ADVOCATES have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $11,905,881 in grants to SUSTAINABLE FISHERY ADVOCATES, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUSTAINABLE FISHERY ADVOCATES?
- The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $4,570,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUSTAINABLE FISHERY ADVOCATES 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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