Funding search · EIN 453220205 · Manhattan Beach, CA
Sustainable Surf
A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.
- 6
- grants reported
- $822,250
- total given
- 2022–2024
- filing years
- $115,000
- median grant
Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.
Funder website ↗Full IRS filings ↗How this is builtReport an error
Funding pattern
What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.
Sign in to analyze this funder’s giving pattern. Free in early access.
Grant history
All 6 reported grants, largest first.
- $330,000
Scripps Institute of Oceanography · La Jolla, CA · 2024
For the purposes of testing multiple hypothesis of restoring kelp, incl. Outplanting lab-grown juveniles and identifying if these more thermally-tolerant strains better survive a warming climate.
- $130,000
Scripps Institute of Oceanography · La Jolla, CA · 2022
For the purposes of building capacity to develop and evaluate methods for carbon accounting in kelp forest ecosystems for the scripps institution of oceanography at uc san diego.
- $130,000
Scripps Institute of Oceanography · La Jolla, CA · 2022
For the purposes of building capacity to develop and evaluate methods for carbon accounting in kelp forest ecosystems for the scripps institution of oceanography at uc san diego.
- $100,000
Philanthropy Works · New York, NY · 2024
To sponsor artist to build a biodiversity blocks monument to promote biodiversity credit system.
- $82,250
Scripps Institute of Oceanography · La Jolla, CA · 2023
For the purposes of testing multiple hypothesis of restoring kelp, incl. Outplanting lab-grown juveniles and identifying if these more thermally-tolerant strains better survive a warming climate.
- $50,000
Uc San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2024
To do a science research for a kelp science project
Who else funds this kind of work
Same state
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation10,471 grants · $10.10B
- Tides Foundation9,402 grants · $1.86B
- UCLA Foundation276 grants · $1.75B
Similar grant size
- The Ford Foundation10,731 grants · $2.35B
- John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)7,100 grants · $1.67B
- Wk Kellogg Foundation7,234 grants · $1.30B
Grants already paid are the record; PaperOrbit reads your paper and finds the funders whose record matches it — then explains why.
Search funders like this oneSource: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.

