Sea Hugger
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831463002
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Half Moon Bay, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4159187119
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recycling Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $102,694
- Expenses
- $82,713
- Assets
- $35,069
- Liabilities
- $35,316
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID CASENTINI (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DAVID CASENTINI (PRESIDENT)
- VALERIE DUBOIS (SECRETARY)
- KARIN ODASZ (TREASURER)
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
Sea hugger inspires people to connect with and care for the marine environment by fostering stewardship through education and action, especially among the youth, to protect our oceans and ensure a sustainable future.
What it reported doing in 2025
Program achievements: 1. Donated one more cigarette butt bin to a business in the harbor. 2. Tabled at 18 events. 3. Spoke at two schools. 4. Hosted three field trips with bay area schools. 5. Hosted four private beach cleanups with business. 6. Financially supported litter4tokens, a south african NGO, that employs locals to clean the beaches in exchange for food, clothing, and household necessities. 7. Financially supported trash4tokens in mexico that has the same mission as litter4tokens. 8. Advocated for 18 federal and state conservation laws and ordinances. 9. Participated in a coalition to protect 30% of our world's oceans by 2030. 10. Participated in a coalition to create a global plastics treaty. 11. Participated in one other global plastic reduction coalition
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 80% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% 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. 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: 47
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 43%; rating input score 43
- Program expense ratio: 53.3%; rating input score 53
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: 19.5%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.01; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.1% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -18.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 43% of revenue deployed · 53.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $44K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 43/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.