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· Public charity

Sea Research Foundation Inc

Protect aquatic life and empower communities to save our oceans.

$78k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$43k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$241kCommunity Improvement$236kEducation$135kHuman Services$54kEnvironment$10kHealth$8k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $72,502, the rows itemized in this filing. The $77,502 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 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.
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$60M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSOCIATION OF ZOOS AND AQUARIUMS$42,502
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC$20,000
MYSTIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $25k → 7%OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $15k → 7%OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $14k → 7%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$705k · 5 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$705k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+32%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • AA
    AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $267k · revenue +83%
  • CO
    Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $152k · revenue +34%
  • CR
    CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $125k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • AO
    ALLIANCE OF MARINE MAMMAL PARKS & AQUARIgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $17k · revenue +32%
  • NM
    NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +196%
  • TB
    THE BUSINESS COUNCIL OF FAIRFIELD CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue -38%
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
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.

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3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
American Council of Engineering Companies of Arizona

To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.

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6
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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7
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
8
American College of Radiology Association

The purpose of the association is the promotion of educational and professional association interests including but not limited to the promotion of the interests of radiology and the interests and study of the socioeconomic aspects of the…

Community Improvement
9
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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10
American Association of Museums

Champion equitable and impactful museums by connecting people, fostering learning and community, and nurturing museum excellence.

Arts & Culture
11
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
12
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Marine Sanctuary Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hope in Focus Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Inc: $152,000 · OtherChamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut…MYSTIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $106,339 · OtherMYSTIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INCALLIANCE OF MARINE MAMMAL PARKS & AQUARI: $16,500 · OtherALLIANCE OF MARINE MAMMAL PARKS & AQUARI+1 more: $7,500 · OtherAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC: $267,277 · AnimalsAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS…CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · EducationCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDA…BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITYOCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $54,375 · Human ServicesNATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EnvironmentHOPE IN FOCUS INC: $7,500 · Health
Other$282,339Animals$267,277Education$135,000Human Services$54,375Environment$10,000Health$7,500

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 budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC: $267,277 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetChamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Inc: $152,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMYSTIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $106,339 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetOCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $54,375 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetALLIANCE OF MARINE MAMMAL PARKS & AQUARI: $16,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BUSINESS COUNCIL OF FAIRFIELD CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHOPE IN FOCUS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 3.2% 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.

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.

Lawrence Memorial Hos…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Lawrence Memorial Hospital IncCT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lawrence Memorial Hospital Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Sea Research Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sea Research Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • National Marine Sanctuary Foundation: 88% of income from government
  • Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 10 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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