Ocean Conservation Society Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 954691853
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Marina Del Rey, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3102135205
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $106,195
- Expenses
- $64,488
- Assets
- $119,060
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Charles Saylan (Board Member, Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Daniel T Blumstein (Board Member)
- Paul Berger (Board Member)
- Maddalena Bearzi (Board Member Principal Investigator)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To conduct marine mammal research leading to the conservation and protection of marine ecosystems, and to raise public awareness of environmental issues facing our oceans through community outreach and production of educational materials
What it reported doing in 2025
Be Whale Aware Campaign: Public information effort producing & distributing 75,000 outreach brochures in English & Spanish to raise awareness and promote compliance with the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972. Promotes safe viewing and encounters with protected animals at sea, includes free presentations to community groups in CA.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34.1%; rating input score 34
- Program expense ratio: 56.1%; rating input score 56
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 39.3%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.85; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 30.8% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 34.1% of revenue deployed · 56.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $36K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 34/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.