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National Estuarine Research Reserve Association

To inspire the protection of our nation's estuaries and to promote conservation-based research, education, and stewardship by advancing the work of the national estuarine research reserve system.

$12k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
60%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$11,623
Largest grant, FY2025
$11,623
Organizations funded a year
2 to 5
FY2022 to FY2024
Total assets, FY2025
$453k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 60% of the organizations National Estuarine Research Reserve Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 73% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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 arriving1$12k0%
FY20245$124k60%
FY20233$25k67%
FY20222$26kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$92kEnvironment$52kScience & Tech$26kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kCommunity Improvement$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Virginia Institute of Marine Science$35,0052n/a
Everett Craddock$13,0002n/a
Chugach Regional Resources Commission$10,41810%
Tridec Technologies$7,5001n/a
Swca Environmental Consulting$5,9681n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($114k), not named here.

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About National Estuarine Research Reserve Association

How much does National Estuarine Research Reserve Association give?
National Estuarine Research Reserve Association reported 1 grants totaling $11,623 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does National Estuarine Research Reserve Association fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (49%), Environment (28%), Science & Tech (14%).
Who are National Estuarine Research Reserve Association's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Virginia Institute of Marine Science ($35k), Everett Craddock ($13k), Chugach Regional Resources Commission ($10k).
Does National Estuarine Research Reserve Association fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is National Estuarine Research Reserve Association based?
National Estuarine Research Reserve Association is based in ME.

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 7 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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