Together, we create science-based solutions for a healthy ocean and the wildlife and communities that depend on it.

You love the ocean as much as we do, and we can’t protect it without you.

A healthy ocean means more than beautiful coasts and vibrant ocean wildlife. If the ocean isn’t healthy, neither are we. Because the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we’re breathing this very second comes from our ocean.

Our work is focused on solving some of the greatest threats facing our ocean today. From the Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico, we bring people, science and policy together, to champion innovative solutions and fight for a sustainable ocean.

That’s why for over forty years we’ve worked to protect vital ecosystems, defend critical legislation, enforce accountability of leaders and legislators and rally the world’s largest effort to remove trash from our beaches. Because a healthy ocean means a healthy planet.

Ocean Conservancy

We want to make life better for wild animals.

We are dedicated to finding evidence-backed ways to improve the lives of animals in the wild.

We depend on individual donors to help us make life better for wild animals. To a small nonprofit working hard on a big problem, your support is more crucial now than ever!

Wild Animal Initiative

The Ocean Cleanup designs and develops advanced technologies to rid the world's oceans of plastic.

We develop advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic.
Every year, millions of tons of plastic enter the oceans, of which the majority spills out from rivers. A portion of this plastic travels to ocean garbage patches, getting caught in a vortex of circulating currents. If no action is taken, the plastic will increasingly impact our ecosystems, health, and economies.

The Ocean Cleanup

Dedicated to the protection of whales, dolphins, and our shared planet. Our vision is a world where every whale and dolphin is safe and free.

Whale and Dolphin Conservation's North american office is a GuideStar Platinum-rated 501c3 non-profit dedicated to the protection of whales, dolphins, and our shared planet. Our vision is a world where every whale and dolphin is safe and free.

Whale and Dolphin Conservation

Our Mission is to inform, inspire and incite action to solve plastic pollution.

Plastic Oceans International is a nonprofit organization raising awareness about plastic pollution to inspire behavioral change. 

Our origins date back several years, as part of the team that helped distribute the award-winning film A Plastic Ocean, but our current status has been as a fully independent nonprofit organization since 2016. 

More than 300 million tons of plastic are produced annually, yet more than 90% of all plastic is not recycled. 

At least eight million tons of plastic are dumped into the ocean each year—equal to a garbage truck per minute. 

Studies find plastic pollutes the air, water and entire food chain, threatening human health, wildlife and the planet. 

Through solutions-focused films and digital content, Plastic Oceans promotes a global movement to rethink plastic.

Plastic Oceans

Sylvia Earle Alliance Mission Blue is a nonprofit organization focused on science and technology. It is based in Napa, CA. It received its nonprofit status in 2008.

Sylvia Earle Alliance Mission Blue

Conserving ecosystems and helping communities on islands throughout the world.

Indigenous people are all too often faced with the dilemma of choosing between protecting their precious natural resources, and economic development. Seacology searches for win-win situations where both the local environment is protected and islanders receive some tangible benefit for doing so.   In Falealupo, Samoa, Seacology built a critically needed school in exchange for the establishment of a 30,000-acre forest reserve. In Vuna Village, Fiji, Seacology is constructing a kindergarten in exchange for the establishment of a 4,752-acre forest preserve and two marine protected areas totaling 3,010 acres.   Because we work closely with islanders right from the beginning, our projects enjoy strong local support and consequently lead to long-term benefits. Our ever-expanding list of projects shows that we are truly making a difference in protecting threatened island biodiversity throughout the world.

Seacology

Pelican Harbor Seabird Station is dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation & release of sick, injured or orphaned native wildlife.

Mission: Pelican Harbor Seabird Station is dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and release of sick, injured or orphaned brown pelicans, seabirds and other native wildlife; and the preservation and protection of these species through educational and scientific means.

Vision: As a trusted wildlife rehab center, Pelican Harbor Seabird Station embodies professionalism, compassion, and integrity. Through innovation, education, and outreach, we provide the highest quality of patient care while promoting the importance of conservation in the community.

Pelican Harbor Seabird Station

Reverse the trend of destruction of ocean environments around the world.

The Ocean Foundation is a community of donors who care about our coasts and ocean to grow the financial resources available for marine conservation.

The Ocean Foundation

Our goal is to restore, improve, and protect the water quality of the ocean off the NY/NJ coast.

 Clean Ocean Action is a leading national and regional voice working to protect waterways using science, law, research, education, and citizen action. 

Clean Ocean Action (COA) is a broad-based coalition of 125 active boating, business, community, conservation, diving, environmental, fishing, religious, service, student, surfing, and women's groups.  These "Ocean Wavemakers" work to clean up and protect the waters of the New York Bight.  The groups came together in 1984 to investigate sources, effects, and solutions of ocean pollution.  What follows is a description of the network.

Clean Ocean Action

The Dauphin Island Sea Lab Foundation assists in developing resources that ensure the long-term growth of the DISL. 

Dauphin Island Sea Lab Foundation Mission 
The Dauphin Island Sea Lab Foundation supports the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in its mission, “to provide wise stewardship of the marine environment through education and research”. 
 The foundation provides funds to sustain the activities of the DI Sea Lab and promotes 
 awareness of the DI Sea Lab and environmental issues. 
 The Foundation is also building an endowment for the Dauphin Island Sea Lab.

The Dauphin Island Sea Lab Overview

The Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL) is the state of Alabama’s marine research and education center. DISL was founded in 1971 by the Alabama Legislature, to maximize the state's marine sciences capabilities and minimize program duplication at Alabama colleges and universities.  Four historically black colleges and universities, both public and private, are among the twenty-two Alabama colleges and universities served by DISL. DISL was recently named the Restore Act-funded Alabama Center for Excellence by the Alabama Gulf Coast Recovery Council.

The DISL University Programs include both graduate and undergraduate courses taught throughout the academic year. This provides about two dozen courses and 1,700 credit hours for upwards of 200 students from the member institutions. DISL does not grant degrees, however, more than 250 graduate degrees have been awarded to DISL based students over the past 25 years.
The DISL Discovery Hall Programs offers a K-12 program that serves students from the entire state of Alabama. It engages classroom teachers and students in the study of marine science throughout the year resulting in more than 55,000 contact hours with over 17,000 students. Opportunities include internships, field trips, service learning, mentoring programs, camps, professional workshops, and more. The traveling BayMobile takes marine science to children in under-served schools reaching over 8000 students.
Public education is offered on campus through the public aquarium, recently named the official Aquarium of Alabama. The Alabama Aquarium focuses on the Mobile watershed, Mobile Bay, and the Gulf of Mexico introducing visitors to marine habitat and marine life through live exhibits and hands-on experiences.

The Role of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab Foundation
The Dauphin Island Sea Lab Foundation was established in 2002 to assist in developing new resources that ensure the long-term growth of the DISL. The founding trustees recognized that the availability of the State to aid the Lab in achieving its full potential is limited, and the Sea Lab must continue its role as a national leader in research, science education, and coastal policy development.



Dauphin Island Sea Lab Foundation

Animal and Wildlife welfare organization destined to save endangered species and conserve wildlife. Grassroots Community Charity.

RedPanda Gives is an Earth welfare charity organization. RedPanda Gives feels it is their obligation to help the Earth. At RedPanda Gives we donate any received funding to these three organizations - Red Panda Network, Oceanic Society, and the Rainforest Trust. These organizations are focused on wildlife education, local communities, and rainforest rehabilitation.

We are partners with the RedPanda Earth Ethereum Token that is a decentralized and completely volunteer free community.  


RedPanda Gives Inc

Support scientific research, improve public safety, educate the public to inspire shark conservation.

Cape Cod based 501(c)(3) registered nonprofit committed to raising public awareness of white sharks. The Conservancy supports scientific research, improves public safety, and educates the community, to inspire conservation of Atlantic white sharks.

Atlantic White Shark Conservancy

A non-profit working to secure a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in Eastern Maine and beyond. We are located in the heart of Stonington, Maine, on the working waterfront, at the southern most tip of Deer Isle.

Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries

Www.marinelifestudies.org  Nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. All personnel serve as volunteer Ocean Stewards; no paid employees. Donations tax-deductible.

MLS Research Mission  The overall research mission of Marine Life Studies is to study the foraging strategies of transient and offshore killer whales as well as investigate the abundance, distribution, movement and frequency of occurrence of other whale and dolphin species in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.   These activities take place under the General Authorization for Scientific Research, a permit issued by NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service. Research results and data will be disseminated in formal research reports and peer-reviewed publications. Good research is a collaborative process. Marine Life Studies (MLS) is committed to sharing data with other researchers. Whenever possible, we also stand ready to assist other researchers in conducting their research by making platforms available, providing information leads on cetacean activities, etc.  MLS Education Mission  Data collection is meaningless unless it is made available not only to the scientific community but also to the general public. This is particularly true in regard to information about whale and dolphin activity within a National Sanctuary. MLS researchers develop and present public presentations concerning the status of their research on the whales and dolphins in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.  MLS Conservation Mission  Species cannot survive unless they have a safe place in which to live. A major threat to whales and dolphins throughout the world is the contamination of their habitats and other damaging effects of human's invasion into marine habitats. The Sanctuary and MLS are committed to actively reducing contamination and dedicated to fostering a respect for the environment.  Other MLS conservation activities of interest include marine mammal entanglement and stranding programs, public education concerning the health of the marine environment and actions necessary to enhance it's good health, and in assisting other dedicated environmental groups in meeting their conservation objectives.

Monterey Bay Marine Life Studies

Dedicated to conducting research to conserve ocean wildlife. http://www.oceansinitiative.org/

Oceans Initiative is a team of scientists on a mission to protect marine life, including whales, dolphins, sharks, salmon & seabirds, in Canada and beyond. Like the whales we study, we are highly migratory. We spend half our time getting our feet wet in the field, wherever our work is needed, but the other half is spent using our science to inform smart decisions to conserve wildlife. Our work addresses two themes:  estimating animal abundance and distribution; and assessing impacts of human activities on behaviour, energetics and population dynamics of marine wildlife.  While we have studied baleen whales in the Antarctic & Patagonia and river dolphins in the Amazon, we work primarily in Pacific Canadian waters.  We partner on marine conservation projects with government agencies, non-government organizations and First Nations.

Oceans Initiative

GDFCF's mission is to promote the survival of Área de Conservación Guanacaste's rich biodiversity in northwestern Costa Rica.

We work in a place of outstanding biodiversity and beauty in northwest Costa Rica called Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG). Home to 2.6% of the world's terrestrial biodiversity, ACG is the only protected area in the Neotropics that sweeps from Pacific Ocean waters up and over the volcanic mountain range of the continental divide and down into the lowlands of the Atlantic rain forest. The Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund (GDFCF) was formed to aid with the development, protection, and sustainability of ACG.  

GDFCF's formal mission statement is to: “Promote the long-term survival of the ecosystems and biodiversity of the Área Silvestre Protegido (wild protected area) of Área de Conservación Guanacaste in Costa Rica through conservation, education, science-based management and biodiversity development.”

Although GDFCF is a U.S. based 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, essentially all funds go directly to Costa Rica to support 38+ resident Costa Rican biodiversity field managers/researchers, equipment, land acquisition, and educational programs in ACG. Your support helps make our work possible. 

Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund

NOSB prepares the next generation of students for careers in ocean science by providing an educational forum for students to excel in math and science.

The NOSB mission is to enrich science teaching and learning across the United States through a high-profile national competition that increases high school students' knowledge of the oceans and enhances public understanding and stewardship of the oceans.  Four Primary Objectives:  1. Develop knowledgeable ocean stewards that understand the ocean’s impact on daily life and the importance of scientific research; 2. Foster the use of the ocean as an interdisciplinary vehicle to teach science and mathematics and encourage the inclusion of the ocean sciences in curricula; 3. Encourage and support the involvement of under-represented and geographically diverse communities in the ocean sciences; and 4. Provide students interactive education that develops critical thinking and skills for the workforce and exposes them to ocean science professionals and career opportunities.

National Ocean Sciences Bowl

Our mission is to study manta rays, conduct scientific research, provide education programs for the public about manta rays. .

Manta Pacific Research Foundation

MARE protects and restores the ocean’s invaluable, yet threatened resources by enabling science-based marine conservation efforts.

Marine Applied Research and Exploration - MARE

WE'RE A COMMUNITY STANDING UP FOR OUR RIVER. South River Watershed Alliance was formed in 2000 to restore and protect Georgia's South River watershed to the benefit of people and wildlife.

South River Watershed Alliance

The Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative works locally to protect and restore the marine resources of the Northwest Straits area.

The mission of the Northwest Straits Initiative is to protect and restore the marine waters, habitats and species of the Northwest Straits region to achieve ecosystem health and sustainable resource use.

Northwest Straits Initiative

Educating and empowering people  to halt global warming in our lifetime.

The Climate is Changing. Mass Extinction is happening now.To change the inevitable course of destruction we must take action now.

Climate Foundation

To conduct research, promote conservation and provide education for the protection of marine ecosystems

Shark research, marine research and conservation: To conduct research, promote conservation and provide education for the protection of marine ecosystems.

Fins Attached Marine Research And Conservation

Center For Applied Marine Science & Technology is a nonprofit organization focused on science and technology. It is based in Gloucester Pt, VA. It received its nonprofit status in 2001.

Center For Applied Marine Science & Technology

Organic Aquaculture Institute Inc is a nonprofit organization focused on science and technology. It is based in Imperial, TX. It received its nonprofit status in 2004.

Organic Aquaculture Institute Inc

Cordell Marine Sanctuary Foundation is a nonprofit organization focused on science and technology. It is based in Pt Reyes Sta, CA. It received its nonprofit status in 2009.

Cordell Marine Sanctuary Foundation

Foundation For Marine Ecology And Telemetry Research is a nonprofit organization focused on science and technology. It is based in Seabeck, WA. It received its nonprofit status in 2016.

Foundation For Marine Ecology And Telemetry Research

Coastal Ecosystems Research Foundation Us is a nonprofit organization focused on science and technology. It is based in Seattle, WA. It received its nonprofit status in 2004.

Coastal Ecosystems Research Foundation Us

An organization focused on science and technology. It received its nonprofit status in 2020.

Red Sea Reef Foundation

Active Divers Association is a nonprofit organization focused on science and technology. It is based in Miami, FL. It received its nonprofit status in 2016.

Active Divers Association

Hawaii Operational Safety Team Inc is a nonprofit organization focused on science and technology. It is based in Kailua, HI. It received its nonprofit status in 2002.

Hawaii Operational Safety Team Inc

Carrow Foundation is a nonprofit organization focused on science and technology. It is based in Wilmington, DE. It received its nonprofit status in 2008.

Carrow Foundation

West Michigan Underwater Preserve is a nonprofit organization focused on science and technology. It is based in Montague, MI. It received its nonprofit status in 2000.

West Michigan Underwater Preserve

Gulf Marine Institute Of Technology Inc is a nonprofit organization focused on science and technology. It is based in Gulf Breeze, FL. It received its nonprofit status in 1997.

Gulf Marine Institute Of Technology Inc

United States Marine Safety Institute is a nonprofit organization focused on science and technology. It is based in Bradenton, FL. It received its nonprofit status in 2015.

United States Marine Safety Institute

North Pacific Marine Science Foundation is a nonprofit organization focused on science and technology. It is based in Seattle, WA. It received its nonprofit status in 1993.

North Pacific Marine Science Foundation

Marine Market Systems

Molluscan Science Foundation Inc is a nonprofit organization focused on science and technology. It is based in Owings Mills, MD. It received its nonprofit status in 2013.

Molluscan Science Foundation Inc

Guiding Star Maritime Foundation Inc is a nonprofit organization focused on science and technology. It is based in Newport Beach, CA. It received its nonprofit status in 2013.

Guiding Star Maritime Foundation Inc

One Earth accelerates collective action to solve the climate crisis through groundbreaking science, media, and philanthropy. 

At One Earth, we believe it’s possible to solve the climate crisis. Our optimism is fueled by groundbreaking science, the game-changing potential of climate philanthropy, and the power of community-led action. Our organization has three corresponding programs -- Science, Philanthropy, Communications -- which work in unison to help scale effective climate philanthropy. The Science program lays the foundation for a vision of the future that’s possible. The Philanthropy program works to direct resources to priority regions and projects. The Communications program builds a new narrative focusing on climate solutions, marketing high-priority projects to a broader audience.

The solutions for the climate crisis already exist, and the latest science, spearheaded by One Earth, shows we can achieve the 1.5°C goal through three pillars of action – a just transition to 100% renewable energy, protection and restoration of half of the world’s lands and oceans, and a shift to net-zero food systems and fibersheds. To achieve this goal, we must rapidly scale climate philanthropy to meet critical funding gaps over the coming decade. 

One Earth

An organization focused on science and technology. It received its nonprofit status in 2021.

Conservation Key Inc

East End Ocean Rescue Ltd is a nonprofit organization focused on science and technology. It is based in Amagansett, NY. It received its nonprofit status in 2009.

East End Ocean Rescue Ltd

Nereus Initiative Corporation is a nonprofit organization focused on science and technology. It is based in Jacksonville, FL. It received its nonprofit status in 2016.

Nereus Initiative Corporation

The Water Council Inc is a nonprofit organization focused on science and technology. It is based in Milwaukee, WI. It received its nonprofit status in 2009.

The Water Council Inc

San Diego Marine Aquarists is a nonprofit organization focused on science and technology. It is based in Lakeside, CA. It received its nonprofit status in 2018.

San Diego Marine Aquarists

Tiburon Salmon Institute is a nonprofit organization focused on science and technology. It is based in Tiburon, CA. It received its nonprofit status in 2008.

Tiburon Salmon Institute

North American Sea Life Alliance Inc is a nonprofit organization focused on science and technology. It is based in Kihei, HI. It received its nonprofit status in 2017.

North American Sea Life Alliance Inc

Yuba Watersherd Foundation is a nonprofit organization focused on science and technology. It is based in Nevada City, CA. It received its nonprofit status in 2002.

Yuba Watersherd Foundation

Diving With A Purpose And Development Group Inc is a nonprofit organization focused on science and technology. It is based in Nashville, TN. It received its nonprofit status in 2014.