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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences Bios Inc

Bios's mission is to seek and share fundamental knowledge of the oceans through state-of-the-art scientific research, world-class field expeditions, and comprehensive educational experiences.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Itemized grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$1.7M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$223,771
Largest grant, FY2024
$592,150
Organizations funded a year
6 to 16
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$43M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences Bios Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$1.7M0%
FY20236$1.3M17%
FY20227$1.5M29%
FY20217$1.4M14%
FY20207$1.1M0%
FY201912$1.6M0%
FY201816$1.8M19%
FY201716$2.2Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Science & Tech$12MAnimals$46k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marine Biological Laboratory$2,574,58481%
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution$2,555,42780%
University of California Santa Barbara$2,295,5848n/a
Oregon State University$1,709,3498n/a
University of Miami$578,52340%
University of Hawaii System$562,4433n/a
The University Corporation$403,19830%
University of Connecticut$343,2993n/a
University of Rhode Island Foundation & Alumni Engagement$340,25150%
University of Massachusetts$313,0383n/a
Show all 23 grantees
All grantees of Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences Bios Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marine Biological Laboratory$2,574,58481%
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution$2,555,42780%
University of California Santa Barbara$2,295,5848n/a
Oregon State University$1,709,3498n/a
University of Miami$578,52340%
University of Hawaii System$562,4433n/a
The University Corporation$403,19830%
University of Connecticut$343,2993n/a
University of Rhode Island Foundation & Alumni Engagement$340,25150%
University of Massachusetts$313,0383n/a
University of Washington$145,4394n/a
University of Rhode Island$128,2671n/a
Carnegie Mellon University$99,60710%
Coral Reef Research Foundation$92,34838%
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc$59,30220%
University of Florida$59,2972n/a
Beneath the Waves Inc$46,21623%
Virginia Institute of Marine Science$40,6682n/a
University of South Florida$38,2092n/a
Florida State University Research Foundation Inc$34,08710%
University of Wisconsin Madison$32,9503n/a
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York$32,06210%
University of Southern Mississippi$9,9471n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences Bios Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMarine Biological Laboratory: $2,574,584 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution: $2,555,427 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $578,523 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe University Corporation: $403,198 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Rhode Island Foundation & Alumni Engagement: $340,251 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $99,607 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoral Reef Research Foundation: $92,348 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: $59,302 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBeneath the Waves Inc: $46,216 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetFlorida State University Research Foundation Inc: $34,087 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $32,062 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

American Chemical SocietyDC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences Bios Inc

How much does Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences Bios Inc give?
Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences Bios Inc reported 7 itemized grants totaling $1,722,430, out of $2,097,384 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences Bios Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (100%), Animals (0%).
Who are Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences Bios Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Marine Biological Laboratory ($2.6M), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ($2.6M), University of California Santa Barbara ($2.3M).
Does Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences Bios Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences Bios Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Chemical Society.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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