Massachusetts · Nonprofit
WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATIONINC
WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATIONINC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,645,084 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($335,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $302k
What Whale and Dolphin Conservationinc does
Mission
To preserve, protect, rescue, and rehabilitate aquatic mammals and their habitats through various functions such as scientific research, public education, information publications and programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Wdc's marine animal rescue and response program area includes more than 200 miles of massachusetts coastline where we respond to stranded marine mammals for the purposes of animal welfare, scientific research, and public health. Wdc's education program educates students about the role of marine mammals in the health of the ecosystem and coastal resilience. Wdc's program to reduce marine mammal bycatch includes a collaboration with partners and fishermen to trial innovative fishing gear to reduce entanglement risk to endangered whales. In addition, wdc advocates for local, state, and federal policies that enhance ocean conservation and the protection of marine mammals.
$1,380,912 spent$71,823 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,380,912.
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 2019 to 2020, from $442k to $785k (+78%).
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: 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
107% of WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATIONINC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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.
Board chair
Chris Butler-Stroud
Board chair/
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $50k → $138k.
9 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATIONINC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATIONINC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
69% 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 WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATIONINC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 66% · 2019 47% · 2020 33% · 2021 54% · 2022 51% · 2023 24% — 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
44% of WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATIONINC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
60% of WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATIONINC'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 $655k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 15 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $990k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATIONINC has grown faster 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 WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATIONINC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $749k on record.
- Department of Commerce$749k
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 WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATIONINC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Whale and Dolphin Conservation Of · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATIONINC?
- WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATIONINC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,645,084 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($335,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATIONINC have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $1,645,084 in grants to WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATIONINC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATIONINC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $335,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATIONINC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 44 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