The Ocean Foundation

The Ocean Foundation’s mission is to support, strengthen, and promote those organizations dedicated to reversing the trend of destruction of ocean environments around the world.

The Ocean Foundation carries out this mission in three ways:
1. Expert education and advice for donors
2. Philanthropic tools
3. Financial support and mentoring of groups working in the field

Drawing from the top experts, research, and thinking in the field, donors benefit from high level counsel in improving the effectiveness and impact of their grantmaking decisions. In short, The Ocean Foundation provides the vital philanthropic portal and services necessary for more effective investment in promoting the health of our oceans. With simple yet sophisticated investment options, they match all those with an affinity for the oceans with the most efficient and effective way to invest in their particular causes. In this way, TOF makes the world of ocean conservation more comprehensible and accessible to donors through our website, newsletters, events, and special trip and research reports.

TOF is a 501c3 independent, international community foundation working to provide intensive, high-end philanthropic advisory services that are customized to meet the specific needs of all of our donors. They model our philanthropy on that of a traditional community foundation: Providing practical services to support philanthropic activity, and adding their unique expertise on where marine conservation can best be advanced.

The geographic community of TOF is the 70% of the earth’s surface covered by ocean. Their human community includes the donors and grantees that are engaged in ocean conservation anywhere in the world.

As a community foundation, TOF raises funds as though it were a charity. However, like a private foundation, TOF re-grants those funds with the advice of individual donors and ocean conservation experts to other non-profits. This structure provides all the tax advantages of giving to a public charity while retaining the personal quality of a private foundation.