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Prince William Sound Science & Technology Institute

The Prince William Sound Science and Technology Institute (d.b.a. Prince William Sound Science Center) (the Center) was formed in 1989 as an Alaska not-for-profit scientific research and education corporation to contribute to the comprehensive description, sustained monitoring, and ecological understanding of Prince William Sound, the…

$605k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Itemized grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$550k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$65,432
Largest grant, FY2025
$125,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$29M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Prince William Sound Science & Technology Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
EnvironmentEducationOther
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 arriving9$550k22%
FY20249$434k33%
FY20238$568k50%
FY202212$281k67%
FY20215$180k20%
FY20204$95k25%
FY20196$311k33%
FY20188$397k63%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$1.5MEducation$410kScience & Tech$348kAnimals$200kFood & Nutrition$120kPublic Safety & Disaster$115kHealth$40kReligion$35kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
NH
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
NJ
CA
MO
MD
NM
SC
OK
LA
FL

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
University of Alaska$782,8409n/a
North Pacific Research Board$250,0003n/a
Owens Coastal Consultants Ltd$238,0072n/a
Safeguard Marine$229,5702n/a
Oregon State University$145,4803n/a
Resource Planning Inc$138,3122n/a
Water Mapping LLC$138,0002n/a
Axiom Data Sciences LLC$121,6831n/a
University System of New Hampshire$117,3202n/a
Nuka Research & Planning Grp$114,1495n/a
Show all 34 grantees
All grantees of Prince William Sound Science & Technology Institute by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Alaska$782,8409n/a
North Pacific Research Board$250,0003n/a
Owens Coastal Consultants Ltd$238,0072n/a
Safeguard Marine$229,5702n/a
Oregon State University$145,4803n/a
Resource Planning Inc$138,3122n/a
Water Mapping LLC$138,0002n/a
Axiom Data Sciences LLC$121,6831n/a
University System of New Hampshire$117,3202n/a
Nuka Research & Planning Grp$114,1495n/a
Farallon Institute$110,84123%
Michigan Tech University$108,7983n/a
Moran Environmental Recovery$100,0001n/a
Tactical Electronics$95,0001n/a
University of New Orleans$94,9034n/a
University of Washington$87,0154n/a
Fjord & Fish Sciences$75,0912n/a
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois$60,0003n/a
AquaGuard$55,0001n/a
Mindfront LLC$40,0002n/a
Bodkin Design & Engineering L$33,8291n/a
Prince William Sound Science & Technology Institute$32,82021%
DF Dickins Associates LLC$25,8841n/a
Nj Institute of Technology$24,9991n/a
US Dept of Commerce - NOAA$24,0721n/a
Johns Hopkins University$23,00010%
University of Wyoming$22,9611n/a
US Fish & Wildlife Service$20,0001n/a
Tactical Electronics$20,0001n/a
Applied Research Associates Inc$20,0001n/a
Alaska Chadux Network$18,19710%
Ideaville$13,4991n/a
Abt Associates Inc$7,0001n/a
SLR International$5,2681n/a

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 FoundationDC21.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · American Chemical Society · Johns Hopkins University

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 Prince William Sound Science & Technology Institute

How much does Prince William Sound Science & Technology Institute give?
Prince William Sound Science & Technology Institute reported 9 itemized grants totaling $549,640, out of $605,052 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Prince William Sound Science & Technology Institute fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (54%), Education (14%), Science & Tech (12%).
Who are Prince William Sound Science & Technology Institute's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Alaska ($783k), North Pacific Research Board ($250k), Owens Coastal Consultants Ltd ($238k).
Does Prince William Sound Science & Technology Institute fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Prince William Sound Science & Technology Institute?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, American Chemical Society, Johns Hopkins University.
Where is Prince William Sound Science & Technology Institute based?
Prince William Sound Science & Technology Institute is based in AK.

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 34 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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