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Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems

The northeastern regional association of coastal and ocean observing systems' (neracoos) mission is to produce, integrate and communicate high-quality information that helps ensure safety, economic and environmental resilience, and sustainable use of the coastal ocean.

$5.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$13MEnvironment$3.2MScience & Tech$2.5MRecreation & Sports$2.2MAnimals$2.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$119kArts & Culture$77kCommunity Improvement$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $5,297,274, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,606,701 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $309,427 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $170k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $571k
  • $250k+6 grants · $4.6M
$120,019
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE$1,410,725
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE$1,069,511
WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION$673,084
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH$525,694
GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE$467,446
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT$410,747
MAINE CENTER FOR COASTAL FISHERIES$191,235
WOODS HOLE GROUP$161,720
GREAT BAY STEWARDS$120,019
UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND$97,564
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$47,117
BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES$34,379
JUST COLLECTIVE$20,635
WELLS RESERVE$20,280
CHARYBDIS LLC$16,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $673k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOU: $539k → 11%WET Labs Inc: $178k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $637k → 11%MAINE CENTER FOR COASTAL FISHERIES: $191k → 11%WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTIO: $501k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH: $526k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $480k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $1.1M → 9%WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTIO: $496k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOU: $512k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $411k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $853k → 9%WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTIO: $346k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOU: $312k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $407k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $777k → 9%GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $467k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $1.4M → 11%WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTIO: $343k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOU: $242k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $351k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $731k → 9%GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $447k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $1.1M → 11%WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTIO: $277k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOU: $238k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $329k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $450k → 9%GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $301k → 7%University of Maine: $1.1M → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOU: $183k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $310k → 11%University of New Hampshire: $413k → 9%GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $292k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $1.0M → 11%University of Connecticut: $274k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $380k → 9%GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $275k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $981k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $364k → 9%GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $238k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $956k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $312k → 9%GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $227k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $950k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $931k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $243k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
NH
IL
NY
MA
OR
CT
RI
CA
HI
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in NH; by stated purpose, 88%.

Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systemslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28M · 24 repeat orgs$959k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +60% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
10

Total granted

$28M
$334k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+60%

Still filing today

33%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $624k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Science & TechEducationEnvironmentAnimalsCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WH
    WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +68%
  • GO
    GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +102%
  • MC
    Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries
    3× · 2022–2025 · $267k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • AD
    AXIOM DATA SCIENCES LLC
    one grant, 2017 · $119k
  • MD
    MASSACHUSETTS DIVISION OF MARINE
    one grant, 2020 · $69k
  • MM
    Massachusetts Maritime Academy Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $37k · revenue +60%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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…

Science & Tech
2
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
3
Sea Education Association Inc

Sea educates and inspires ocean scholars, stewards and leaders. sea fosters and enhances knowledge about the state of oceans and coastal communities. it also helps shape public dialogue and policy through long-term environmental reseach,…

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4
Marine Science Institute

The institutes mission is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment and our human communities through interdisciplinary science education.

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5
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
6
Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems

The northeastern regional association of coastal and ocean observing systems' (neracoos) mission is to produce, integrate and communicate high-quality information that helps ensure safety, economic and environmental resilience, and…

Science & Tech
7
Maine Maritime Museum

To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.

Arts & Culture
8
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner
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11
Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated

Gloucester marine genomics institute's mission is to address critical challenges in ocean health, human health, and the environment through innovative marine biotechnology research and transformative science education. by combining…

Science & Tech
12
New England Fishermen's Stewardship Association

Alliance of wild harvesters of the waters off of new england dedicated, to educating the public about how best to manage our seafood resources through sound science & best practices of conversation used by fishermen

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Aquarium Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Cowass North America Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INC: $8,695,184 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INCUNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $5,367,387 · OtherUNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIREUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $3,217,290 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUTUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $2,204,653 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS+22 more: $3,132,350 · Other+22 moreWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $2,932,821 · Science & TechWOODS HOLE OC…Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries: $266,994 · Science & TechMaine Center …+2 more: $120,937 · Science & TechGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2,568,835 · AnimalsGULF OF MA…+1 more: $44,652 · AnimalsGREAT BAY STEWARDS INC: $138,160 · EnvironmentLAUDHOLM TRUST: $29,960 · EnvironmentSEABROOK-HAMPTONS ESTUARY ALLIANCE: $8,506 · EnvironmentMassachusetts Maritime Academy Foundation Inc: $37,422 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $36,509 · EducationTrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine: $21,331 · EducationTrustees of Hamilton College: $8,650 · EducationCOWASS North America Incorporated: $15,618 · Arts & CultureTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $5,146 · Community Improvement
Other$22,616,864Science & Tech$3,320,752Animals$2,613,487Environment$176,626Education$103,912Arts & Culture$15,618Community Improvement$5,146

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $2,932,821 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2,568,835 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries: $266,994 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetGREAT BAY STEWARDS INC: $138,160 over 2y, 19% of budgetBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: $107,937 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $87,159 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $47,117 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $44,652 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Maritime Academy Foundation Inc: $37,422 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $36,509 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAUDHOLM TRUST: $29,960 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine: $21,331 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOWASS North America Incorporated: $15,618 over 1y, 27% of budgetGULF OF MAINE LOBSTER FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $8,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEABROOK-HAMPTONS ESTUARY ALLIANCE: $8,506 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $5,146 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries ↗
  • Who funds GREAT BAY STEWARDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Maritime Academy Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LAUDHOLM TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine ↗
  • Who funds COWASS North America Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds GULF OF MAINE LOBSTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
  • Who funds SEABROOK-HAMPTONS ESTUARY ALLIANCE ↗

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 Wil…Davis Conservation Fo…The Nature ConservancyMaine Community Found…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationDC18.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Davis Conservation Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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 41 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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