Ocean and Blue Economy funders

Funding for ocean health, sustainable fisheries, aquaculture and the blue economy. Backed by the World Bank PROBLUE, EU EMFAF and Horizon, the Benioff and Packard foundations, and national marine programmes. The organisations listed below are the ocean and blue economy funders behind that picture, each with what it backs, where it operates and how it prefers to be approached.

The funders are development banks, national water and marine agencies, climate funds and a small number of ocean-focused foundations. This is a directory in which the same organisation frequently appears as both funder and buyer, financing a utility upgrade in one instrument and tendering the delivery in another, so it is worth reading both surfaces for the same name.

This page lists every funder in the Raise Lens directory whose stated focus includes ocean and blue economy. There are currently 8 of them: a mix of public agencies, foundations, development finance institutions, corporate programmes and climate investors. Each profile records what the funder backs, where it operates, whether it is open to unsolicited applications, and the opportunities it has published through Raise Lens.

Funders active in ocean and blue economy include European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF), Marine Management Organisation, Moore Foundation and 2 others. The mix matters when you are planning a raise: a public agency and a corporate venture arm fund the same ocean and blue economy work on very different timelines, at different cheque sizes and against different eligibility rules, so the right first approach is rarely the same one.

Funder records are refreshed continuously and enriched from each organisation's own published material, so focus areas and application routes reflect what the funder currently says rather than what it said when the directory was first built. Where a funder runs named programmes, those appear as individual opportunities you can track and save.