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Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Foundation Inc

The mission of the harbor branch oceanographic institute foundation is to support the harbor branch oceanographic institute, a research institute of florida atlantic university. The harbor branch oceanographic institute foundation provides funding and support to harbor branch oceanographic institute at fau for research and education in…

$4.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$11,004
Largest grant, FY2025
$4,216,952
Organizations funded a year
3 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$129M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsScience & TechEducationOther
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
FY2025still arriving4$4.2M25%
FY20244$5.6M0%
FY20235$4.4M0%
FY20228$4.1M38%
FY20217$2.3M57%
FY20203$3.9M0%
FY20193$3.5M0%
FY20183$2.0M0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Science & Tech$31MEnvironment$998kAnimals$152kEducation$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Florida Atlantic University$31,355,2749n/a
Guy Harvey Ocean Fund Inc$827,459612%
Wyland Foundation$251,32467%
Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute$49,95250%
Blue World Research Institute Inc$39,58841%
Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc$35,64540%
Florida Panhandle Marine Institute Inc$15,53527%
Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge Inc$10,00014%
Dolphin Life Inc$9,9761n/a
Mote Marine Laboratory Inc$8,89410%
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All grantees of Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Florida Atlantic University$31,355,2749n/a
Guy Harvey Ocean Fund Inc$827,459612%
Wyland Foundation$251,32467%
Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute$49,95250%
Blue World Research Institute Inc$39,58841%
Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc$35,64540%
Florida Panhandle Marine Institute Inc$15,53527%
Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge Inc$10,00014%
Dolphin Life Inc$9,9761n/a
Mote Marine Laboratory Inc$8,89410%
The University of Florida Foundation Inc$5,98010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGuy Harvey Ocean Fund Inc: $827,459 over 6y, 12% of budgetWyland Foundation: $251,324 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetHubbs-Sea World Research Institute: $49,952 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBlue World Research Institute Inc: $39,588 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetClearwater Marine Aquarium Inc: $35,645 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFlorida Panhandle Marine Institute Inc: $15,535 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetEmerald Coast Wildlife Refuge Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetMote Marine Laboratory Inc: $8,894 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Florida Foundation Inc: $5,980 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 9.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Fish and Wildlife FoundationDC15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover 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 Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Foundation Inc

How much does Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Foundation Inc give?
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Foundation Inc reported 4 grants totaling $4,243,577 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (96%), Environment (3%), Animals (0%).
Who are Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Florida Atlantic University ($31M), Guy Harvey Ocean Fund Inc ($827k), Wyland Foundation ($251k).
Does Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Foundation Inc based?
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Foundation Inc is based in FL.

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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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