Employing more than 110 scientists from its Shelter Island base in Point Loma, the National Marine Mammal Foundation is a female-led 501(c)(3) conducting published marine-mammal research across four continents. Founded in 2009, NMMF integrates veterinary medicine, field biology, and wildlife epidemiology under one roof, generating conservation data that informs the broader ocean-science advocacy of organizations like The Maritime Alliance. Its Conservation Medicine team leads long-term dolphin-health assessments in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon spill through the multi-institutional CARMMHA consortium. Locally, NMMF's STEAM education workshops bring marine-mammal science into San Diego classrooms, with programming designed to encourage young women to pursue careers in science and conservation in Point Loma San Diego and beyond. That public-education ethos extends to the peninsula's southern tip, where Cabrillo National Monument Foundation supports parallel interpretive programming about the coast's ecosystems near the Old Point Loma Lighthouse. NMMF's most ambitious current initiative is Operation GRACE — Global Rescue of At-Risk Cetaceans and Ecosystems — a multi-continent field campaign deploying veterinary teams to assess critically endangered dolphin and whale populations from the Amazon Basin to Southeast Asia.