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Seafood Industry Research Fund Inc

Providing grants to institutions in support of graduate level research studies relating to the seafood industry.

$105k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$899kScience & Tech$224kFood & Nutrition$170kReligion$97kCommunity Improvement$32kArts & Culture$30kEnvironment$7kCrime & Legal$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $96,772, the rows itemized in this filing. The $104,821 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,049 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.
$32,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
North Carolona State Universi$33,272
Native Agtech$32,000
AI Control Technologies Inc$31,500
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Brandeis University: $50k → 8%SGS North America Inc: $9k → 11%Northeastern University: $65k → 16%Padilla Speer Beardsley: $75k → 11%Murray & Associates: $32k → 8%Chapman University: $27k → 10%Univ of California in LA: $7k → 11%Michelson Laboratories Inc: $7k → 14%Certified Laboratories: $11k → 7%Cornell University: $59k → 16%Georgetown University: $10k → 14%Nova Southeastern University: $43k → 13%Safe Quality Seafood Associat: $16k → 15%University of Connecticut: $43k → 11%North Carolona State Universi: $33k → 8%University of Rhode Island: $8k → 7%Emory University: $15k → 14%Native Agtech: $32k → 16%University of Washington: $54k → 9%Illinois Ins of Technology: $68k → 14%Sage Green NRG: $29k → 13%National Fisheries Institute: $13k → 6%Frozen Food Foundation: $50k → 7%Hampton University: $41k → 14%AI Control Technologies Inc: $32k → 9%SGS North America Inc: $6k → 11%Northeastern University: $50k → 16%Padilla Speer Beardsley: $22k → 11%Univ of California in LA: $55k → 14%Covington & Burling LLP: $7k → 14%University of Washington: $25k → 9%National Fisheries Institute: $58k → 6%Northeastern University: $7k → 16%Univ of California in LA: $50k → 14%University of Washington: $6k → 9%Univ of California in LA: $45k → 14%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

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WA
ND
MN
IL
NY
MA
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OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
VA
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$743k · 8 repeat orgs$702k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
20

Total granted

$743k
$605k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+23%

Still filing today

38%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2023 · $122k · revenue +87%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2020 · $85k · revenue +76%
  • NF
    NATIONAL FISHERIES INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2019–2022 · $71k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
    one grant, 2021 · $110k
  • II
    Illinois Institute of Technology
    one grant, 2022 · $68k · revenue +20%
  • Cornell University
    one grant, 2021 · $59k · revenue +23%
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
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
3
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
6
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
7
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
8
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
9
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
10
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
11
Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford

The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…

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12
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is Frozen Food Foundation. 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. 11 of the 32 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $150,000 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIAUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $110,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAPadilla Speer Beardsley: $97,100 · OtherPadilla Speer BeardsleyOREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $97,100 · OtherOREGON STATE UNIVERSITYIBM: $75,503 · OtherIBMNATIONAL FISHERIES INSTITUTE INC: $71,200 · OtherNATIONAL FISHERIES INSTITUTE INCSeafoor people AS: $44,899 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $42,637 · OtherHAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $40,800 · OtherNC STATE UNIVERSITY: $33,272 · Other+12 more: $202,716 · Other+12 moreNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $121,800 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $85,280 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYIllinois Institute of Technology: $68,460 · EducationIllinois Institute of TechnologyCornell University: $58,629 · EducationCornell UniversityBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $49,700 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITYNova Southeastern University Inc: $43,294 · EducationNova Southeastern University IncCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $27,441 · EducationCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY+2 more: $25,000 · EducationFrozen Food Foundation: $50,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$965,227Education$479,604Food & Nutrition$50,000

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 budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $121,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $85,280 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FISHERIES INSTITUTE INC: $71,200 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $68,460 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $58,629 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrozen Food Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $49,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $43,294 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $27,441 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 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 NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FISHERIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds Frozen Food Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Seafood Industry Research Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seafood Industry Research Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Seafood Industry Research Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 32 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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