PARTNERSHIP FOR OBSERVATION OF THE GLOBAL OCEAN

Registered charity 1171692 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q17092341 · Wikipedia · also known as PARTNERSHIP FOR OBSERVATION OF THE GLOBAL OCEANS, POGO

The charity brings together the world's major oceanographic institutes to plan joint actions to advance sustained ocean observations for societal benefit. It provides professional training opportunities for early-career scientists to develop the worldwide capacity for sustained ocean observations, and advocates at public and policy levels for the need for sustained funding for the observing system

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE SCIENCE OF GLOBAL OCEAN OBSERVATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) BY - ADVANCING EDUCATION IN GLOBAL OCEAN OBSERVATION BY IDENTIFYING AREAS OF FURTHER STUDY FOR DEVELOPING THE SCIENCE OF GLOBAL OCEAN OBSERVATION- THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH IN GLOBAL OCEAN OBSERVATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND THE PUBLICATION AND DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH- THE PROVISION OF SCHOLARSHIPS AND RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS- THE PROMOTION OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE SCIENCE OF GLOBAL OCEAN OBSERVATION

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Plymouth, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a loss for the year of £146,843, primarily due to the utilization of restricted reserves brought forward. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stand at £291,372, which the trustees consider broadly consistent with their policy target of holding one year's operating costs.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Minderoo Foundation — “Minderoo has sponsored the OBON-FAO workshop on “Leveraging Biomolecular Technologies for Supporting Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture” …” (source page)
• OceanQuest — “OceanQuest funded the shipboard training (and other legs of the) 2025 Around Africa Expedition, working with POGO and OceanX on the design o…” (source page)
• OceanX — “OceanX has partnered with POGO on several initiatives, including as a sponsor for the 1st Marine ‘Omics Technology and Instrumentation works…” (source page)
• The Alfred P Sloan Foundation — “Seed funding from the Sloan Foundation was instrumental in getting POGO started, by supporting the first two POGO meetings as well as by fun…” (source page)
• The Nippon Foundation — “The Nippon Foundation (NF) has been the main sponsor of POGO Capacity Building programmes since 2004.” (source page)
• The Richard Lounsbery Foundation — “It was also instrumental in providing initial support which enabled POGO to begin life without taxing its members. More recently, a 50K USD …” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Capt. Francisco Armando Arias-Isazachair
• Dr Anya Mary Waite
• Dr Carmen Guadalupe Paniagua Chavez
• Dr Olivier Georges Marie Pringault
• Dr Steven Francis DiMarco
• Dr Tamaryn Antonello
• Prof. Fei Chai

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Australia · Bangladesh · Belgium · Benin · Brazil · Canada · Cape Verde · Chile · China · Colombia · Ecuador · Egypt

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MARINE CONSERVATION SOCIETY.

• MARINE CONSERVATION SOCIETY income £5.3m
• PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY income £16.4m
• NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE income £87.9m
• THE REEF-WORLD FOUNDATION income £301k
• Ocean Conservation Trust Limited income £7.1m
• OCEAN FAMILY FOUNDATION income £329k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.