California · Nonprofit
VIA SENTI
VIA SENTI (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $633,005 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($381,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $275k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $633k
- Net assets
- $41k
What Via Senti does
Mission
Heirs to our ocean is an official fictitious business name of Via Senti a california public benefit nonprofit corporation, being its only program. We are an international youth organization with a mission of empowering the next generation of leaders by connecting them in purpose, educating them on the intersection of the environmental and humanitarian crises they are inheriting, and cultivating essential skills to create innovative solutions and real-world change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
2025 program impact: national and global ioc/unesco's ocean decade engagements in 2025 Via Senti, fictitious business name heirs to our ocean (h2oo), continued to build momentum as a decade implementation partner of ioc/unesco, as it has since 2021, ensuring the next generation of leaders is included meaningfully in ocean and climate decision-making and governance. Un ocean decade programs, projects and engagements included the following: u.s. Youth leadership council (formerly u.s. Youth action council for the un ocean decade) convened two cohorts in 2025: 46 participants in the 5th cohort (september 2024may 2025) and 39 participants in the 6th cohort (september 2025may 2026). Across both cohorts, participants built real- world leadership skills through 9 skill-building workshops, 346 mentorship hours, and hands-on community projects including 20+ ocean and climate education presentations and 32 plastic pollution brand audits documenting top corporate plastic polluters. The 5th cohort completed policy advocacy training culminating in 74 virtual and in-person meetings with u.s. Federal lawmakers during their capitol hill days, with 82% of in-person participants attending on…
$137,871 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $137,871.
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 2018 to 2019, from $15k to $64k (+326%).
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.
94% of VIA SENTI’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $32k.
6 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 VIA SENTI’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
VIA SENTI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 VIA SENTI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 51% · 2021 73% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
96% of VIA SENTI'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 $25k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $608k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
VIA SENTI receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $633k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like VIA SENTI
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
46% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 VIA SENTI: 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 VIA SENTI?
- VIA SENTI (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $633,005 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($381,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VIA SENTI have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $633,005 in grants to VIA SENTI, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VIA SENTI?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $381,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VIA SENTI 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 7 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