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SUSTAINABLE OCEAN ALLIANCE INC

SUSTAINABLE OCEAN ALLIANCE INC (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,300,797 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($5,072,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$4.9M
Revenue FY2024
31
Funders on record
$23M
Grants received
$6.8M
Net assets
19/31 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

SUSTAINABLE OCEAN ALLIANCE INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,184 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−59% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,184 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($55k) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2019 Revenue 319 ($5.7M) Expenses 2691 ($1.5M) Net assets 325 ($5.7M)2020 Revenue 148 ($2.7M) Expenses 5185 ($2.9M) Net assets 311 ($5.4M)2021 Revenue 180 ($3.2M) Expenses 7297 ($4.0M) Net assets 266 ($4.6M)2022 Revenue 711 ($13M) Expenses 10734 ($5.9M) Net assets 659 ($11M)2023 Revenue 297 ($5.3M) Expenses 12899 ($7.1M) Net assets 558 ($9.7M)2024 Revenue 273 ($4.9M) Expenses 14172 ($7.8M) Net assets 391 ($6.8M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (273)Expenses (14172)Net assets (391)Peer revenue range

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 4% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of SUSTAINABLE OCEAN ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,285 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.7M
18
$4.2M
19
$191k
20
$787k
21
$6.8M
22
$1.8M
23
$2.9M
24
6.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 17 funders, grant income rose $6k → $10M.

13 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)76% 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 OCEAN ALLIANCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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

SUSTAINABLE OCEAN ALLIANCE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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

78% 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 SUSTAINABLE OCEAN ALLIANCE INC.

22%
largest funder
52%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 73% · 2020 71% · 2021 53% · 2022 27% · 2023 44%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

56% of SUSTAINABLE OCEAN ALLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

76% of SUSTAINABLE OCEAN ALLIANCE INC'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 $5.7M that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from funders outside California, across 7 states.

NY
MA
OR
SD
CA
DE
AR

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

18
19
20
21
22
23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 31 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding SUSTAINABLE OCEAN ALLIANCE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.

Federal$15k
grants $15kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of State$15k

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 OCEAN ALLIANCE INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 20%Fundraising 10%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

64%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 26 states

NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
RI
CA
KY
WV
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
MS
AL
GA
FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Soa Seabird Ventures LLC · partnership

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUSTAINABLE OCEAN ALLIANCE 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 SUSTAINABLE OCEAN ALLIANCE INC?
SUSTAINABLE OCEAN ALLIANCE INC (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,300,797 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($5,072,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SUSTAINABLE OCEAN ALLIANCE INC have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $23,300,797 in grants to SUSTAINABLE OCEAN ALLIANCE INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SUSTAINABLE OCEAN ALLIANCE INC?
Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $5,072,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SUSTAINABLE OCEAN ALLIANCE INC 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 31funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing