How much does Marine Biological Laboratory give?

Marine Biological Laboratory reported 23 itemized grants totaling $2,958,795, out of $5,277,746 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Marine Biological Laboratory fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (75%), Education (18%), Environment (5%).

Who are Marine Biological Laboratory's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Chicago ($1.8M), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ($1.3M), University of Vermont and State Agricultural College ($1.0M).

Does Marine Biological Laboratory fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Marine Biological Laboratory?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include University of Miami, American Chemical Society, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.

Where is Marine Biological Laboratory based?

Marine Biological Laboratory is based in MA.

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Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the world's leading scientists who are attracted by the MBL's unique resources and strengths, and who…

$5.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 23
Itemized grants FY2025: 21
Organizations funded FY2024: 14%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $3.0M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $58,830
Largest grant, FY2025: $585,015
Organizations funded a year: 21 to 25; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 16
Total assets, FY2025: $247M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Marine Biological Laboratory funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationScience & TechOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	21	$2.2M	19%
FY2024	21	$1.9M	14%
FY2023	22	$2.1M	27%
FY2022	25	$2.4M	16%
FY2021	21	$1.7M	10%
FY2020	23	$1.5M	4%
FY2019	21	$1.6M	10%
FY2018	23	$1.2M	26%

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What it funded, over time

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

Science & Tech$14MEducation$3.4MEnvironment$891kHealth$112kYouth Development$103kAnimals$59kHuman Services$37k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

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

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Chicago	$1,797,918	9	0%
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	$1,320,706	8	0%
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College	$1,028,791	6	n/a
Regents of the University of Michigan	$941,226	6	n/a
The University of Texas at Dallas Center for Brainhealth	$866,813	3	n/a
University of Massachusetts	$841,072	8	n/a
University of Minnesota	$668,832	6	n/a
University System of New Hampshire	$664,908	9	n/a
University of South Carolina	$552,733	6	n/a
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley	$549,001	8	n/a

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All grantees of Marine Biological Laboratory by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Chicago	$1,797,918	9	0%
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	$1,320,706	8	0%
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College	$1,028,791	6	n/a
Regents of the University of Michigan	$941,226	6	n/a
The University of Texas at Dallas Center for Brainhealth	$866,813	3	n/a
University of Massachusetts	$841,072	8	n/a
University of Minnesota	$668,832	6	n/a
University System of New Hampshire	$664,908	9	n/a
University of South Carolina	$552,733	6	n/a
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley	$549,001	8	n/a
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc	$506,493	4	0%
Trustees of Clark University	$488,372	8	0%
Towson University Foundation Inc	$473,654	5	2%
Clifford A Goudey & Associates	$465,464	7	n/a
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$415,050	8	n/a
Michigan State University	$409,376	8	n/a
Regents of the University of California	$402,762	2	n/a
Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc	$348,299	6	1%
Northeastern University	$328,149	3	0%
University of Connecticut	$314,556	5	n/a
Trustees of Boston University	$232,447	7	0%
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	$223,985	4	0%
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc	$220,140	8	0%
Regents of the University of California at Irvine	$199,665	3	n/a
William Marsh Rice University	$180,417	3	0%
Utah State University	$161,629	6	n/a
Oregon State University	$132,213	3	n/a
Villanova University	$130,089	3	0%
Duke University	$128,978	4	0%
Rutgers the State University	$103,242	2	n/a
USC School of Medicine Greenville	$101,255	3	n/a
University of Texas	$98,840	1	n/a
University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Campus	$92,466	2	n/a
University of California Santa Barbara	$74,896	2	n/a
University of Washington	$66,339	2	n/a
Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati Children's Hospital)	$64,558	1	n/a
National Audubon Society Inc	$58,830	1	0%
Virginia Institute of Marine Science	$56,564	1	n/a
University of Utah	$55,352	2	n/a
Kansas State University Foundation	$52,286	2	0%
Florida Atlantic University	$47,569	2	n/a
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences	$43,012	3	0%
The Rector & Visitors of the Univerity-Va	$42,828	1	n/a
The Lutheran Service Society of W Pa	$36,537	1	2%
Arizona State University	$27,002	1	n/a
Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia	$24,220	1	n/a
Bridgewater State University	$22,816	1	n/a
University of Louisiana at Lafayette	$19,120	1	n/a
Coastal Ocean Vision Inc	$14,666	2	n/a
J Craig Venter Institute	$7,866	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marine Biological Laboratory supplied at peak.

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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 18.

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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.

University of MiamiFL13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: University of Miami · American Chemical Society · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York

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 Marine Biological Laboratory

How much does Marine Biological Laboratory give?: Marine Biological Laboratory reported 23 itemized grants totaling $2,958,795, out of $5,277,746 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Marine Biological Laboratory fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (75%), Education (18%), Environment (5%).
Who are Marine Biological Laboratory's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Chicago ($1.8M), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ($1.3M), University of Vermont and State Agricultural College ($1.0M).
Does Marine Biological Laboratory fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Marine Biological Laboratory?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include University of Miami, American Chemical Society, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
Where is Marine Biological Laboratory based?: Marine Biological Laboratory is based in MA.