 The Center is funded primarily by foundations and individual gifts, according to GuideStar charity reports.When it was founded in 2003, the Safina Center (then known as the Blue Ocean Institute), had a focus on ocean science and policy, primarily fish and fisheries.Over the next few years the organization’s focus widened as the increasing influence of climate-related issues such as global warming and ocean acidification made it necessary to address the global influence of energy, food production, material culture and the expanding human footprint on not just the ocean but on the living world generally.