Ocean Awareness Project Inc

Analysis

Ocean Awareness Project Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Richmond, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Ocean Awareness Project Inc reported income of $157k and spending of $233k, spending 148% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $205k to $157k (-23%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Ocean Awareness Project Inc sits at the 46th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile, and in the 50th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sound Action ($157k), Southeastern Massachusetts Pine Barrens Alliance ($157k) and Wrangell Institute for Science and Environment ($157k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% and program service revenue 0.1% of the total. At year end it held assets of $43k against liabilities of $500, net assets of $43k.