· Public charity
Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association
Secoora is the regional solution to integrating coastal and ocean observing data in the southeast united states to inform decision makers and the general public.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of SOUTHEAST COASTAL OCEAN OBSERVING REGIONAL ASSOCIATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 42 grants below total $5,174,336 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,156,998 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $982,662 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $423k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+8 grants · $3.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNC WILMINGTON | $536,647 |
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | $524,118 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $465,748 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $431,176 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $420,141 |
| AXIOM DATA SCIENCES LLC | $365,854 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $349,417 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $289,787 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $173,761 |
| COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY | $147,800 |
| FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY | $124,800 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $117,840 |
| FISHERIES DATA SOLUTION LLC | $112,312 |
| AMERICAN SHORE & BEACH PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION | $104,306 |
| FATHOM SCIENCE LLC | $99,399 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 11% of the giving stays in SC; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
36 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UOUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +80%
- UOUniversity of Miami9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +96%
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE5× · 2017–2025 · $809k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- COCODAR OCEAN SENSORS LTDone grant, 2024 · $128k
- ROROFFER'S OCEAN FISHING FORECASTING SERVICEone grant, 2017 · $45k
- DPDUNCAN PARNELL INCone grant, 2024 · $35k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of Nova Southeastern University-a selective, doctoral research university-is to deliver academic programs in a dynamic, innovative environment. We foster academic excellence, leadership, integrity (continued on Schedule O) and…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
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…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Delaware and the most unlike its peers is Coastal Carolina University Research Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SHORE & BEACH PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CARIBBEAN COASTAL OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Jacksonville University ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Nova Southeastern University Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Florida Institute of Technology Inc — 5% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Jacksonville University — 3% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.