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WILD OCEANS INC

WILD OCEANS INC (Florida) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,488,291 to it, the largest being MOSTYN FOUNDATION INC ($661,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$522k
Funders on record
31
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$2.2M
20/31 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 56%
01What it does

What Wild Oceans Inc does

Mission

Wild oceans brings together sport and commercial fisherman, industry representatives, conservationists,scientists and government administrators to conserve fish stock and to protect the ocean environment.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Restoration of fish stocks and protection of the ocean environment through the promotion of public awareness and encouraging sound management policies.

    $461,270 spentof which $116,149 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $461,270.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($310k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 93 ($1.2M) Expenses 111 ($345k) Net assets 103 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 32 ($427k) Expenses 129 ($400k) Net assets 121 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 30 ($392k) Expenses 113 ($350k) Net assets 133 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 44 ($580k) Expenses 105 ($325k) Net assets 161 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 36 ($470k) Expenses 107 ($332k) Net assets 148 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 35 ($466k) Expenses 118 ($367k) Net assets 177 ($1.9M)2024 Revenue 38 ($496k) Expenses 126 ($392k) Net assets 198 ($2.1M)2025 Revenue 40 ($522k) Expenses 169 ($523k) Net assets 208 ($2.2M)
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Revenue (40)Expenses (169)Net assets (208)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.6M to $1.9M (+20%).

$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.4M
$1.6M
$1.7M
$1.6M
$1.9M
$2.1M
$2.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.0M
’17
$887k
’18
$26k
’19
$42k
’20
$255k
’21
$138k
’22
$99k
’23
$104k
’24
−$1k
’25
12
months of
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.

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Listed101011111110101111
Joined·+1+2+1+0+0+0+1+1
No longer listed·11101001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 11 funders, grant income rose $109k → $261k.

6 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 WILD OCEANS 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

WILD OCEANS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

44%
largest funder
65%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 48% · 2019 72% · 2020 58% · 2021 52% · 2022 43% · 2023 40% — 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.

How long its funders stay

32% of WILD OCEANS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

WILD OCEANS INC draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 14 states in all.

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
NC
OK
AL
TX
FL

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $244k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like WILD OCEANS INC

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 Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 9%Fundraising 3%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

46%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds WILD OCEANS INC?
WILD OCEANS INC (Florida) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,488,291 to it, the largest being MOSTYN FOUNDATION INC ($661,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WILD OCEANS INC have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,488,291 in grants to WILD OCEANS INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WILD OCEANS INC?
MOSTYN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $661,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WILD OCEANS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 31 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