California · Nonprofit
UN MAR DE COLORES
UN MAR DE COLORES (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $374,174 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($117,833). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $587k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $374k
- Net assets
- $412k
What Un Mar de Colores does
Mission
We nurture the next generation of ocean stewards by providing free surf therapy, environmental education, and long-term mentorship for underserved youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
One ocean is our flagship program, blending year-round surfing and water safety,ocean recreation, nature-based field trips, and environmental education. In 2024, we served 60 youth and 100 family members across 24 sessions. The program integrates trauma-informed mental health support and builds ecological literacy while fostering connection, confidence, and care for the ocean.
$103,099 spent$8,089 earned by the program45% of program spendingOceanside ocean stewards program: oceanside ocean stewards is an afterschool youth development and environmental stewardship program operating in the city of oceanside the program engages local youth in community-based conservation projects leadership development, and culturally responsive environmental education. Oceanside stewards is supported by the city of oceansides measure x initiative and the california coastal
$80,188 spent35% of program spendingCommunity environmental engagement and education program: community environmental engagement and education programs provides bilingual environmental education, watershed and coastalecology programming, and community advocacy. The organization serves as a community liaison for the tijuana river coalition addressing the transboundary pollution crisis at the tijuana river estuary, anddelivers contracted environmental education and equitable coastalaccess services to partner organizations. These programs build environmental literacy and civic engagement through culturally rooted,nature-based learning experiences
$45,821 spent$64,410 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $229,108.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $188k to $412k (+119%).
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: 2024 3% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of UN MAR DE COLORES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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
Mario Ordonez Calderon
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $17k → $22k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 UN MAR DE COLORES’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
UN MAR DE COLORES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 UN MAR DE COLORES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 70% · 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.
Where its funders are
80% of UN MAR DE COLORES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $129k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
UN MAR DE COLORES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like UN MAR DE COLORES
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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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 UN MAR DE COLORES: 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 UN MAR DE COLORES?
- UN MAR DE COLORES (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $374,174 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($117,833). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UN MAR DE COLORES have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $374,174 in grants to UN MAR DE COLORES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UN MAR DE COLORES?
- THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $117,833 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UN MAR DE COLORES 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 13 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