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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. The secoora region encompasses 4 states, over 42 million people and spans the coastal ocean from north carolina to the west coast of florida. We are creating customized products…

$6.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
42
Itemized grants FY2025
32
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$5.2M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$57,829
Largest grant, FY2025
$536,647
Organizations funded a year
14 to 32
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
14
Total assets, FY2025
$3.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $339k 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
EducationEnvironmentScience & TechOther
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 arriving41$5.1M24%
FY202432$4.9M22%
FY202327$3.9M15%
FY202223$4.2M22%
FY202120$3.4M15%
FY202018$2.9M22%
FY201917$1.8M29%
FY201814$2.1M29%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$23MScience & Tech$7.5MEducation$503k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
UT
VA
MD
DE
NC
SC
DC
HI
GA
TX
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 South Florida$4,387,3039n/a
University of North Carolina at Wilmington - College of Health & Human Serv$3,788,4119n/a
Axiom Data Sciences LLC$3,369,3659n/a
USC School of Medicine Greenville$2,529,8069n/a
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$2,288,9419n/a
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc$2,258,41990%
University of Miami$1,735,48890%
Fathom Science LLC$1,190,5868n/a
Nc State University$935,2098n/a
Texas A&M University$932,6843n/a
Show all 55 grantees
All grantees of Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of South Florida$4,387,3039n/a
University of North Carolina at Wilmington - College of Health & Human Serv$3,788,4119n/a
Axiom Data Sciences LLC$3,369,3659n/a
USC School of Medicine Greenville$2,529,8069n/a
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$2,288,9419n/a
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc$2,258,41990%
University of Miami$1,735,48890%
Fathom Science LLC$1,190,5868n/a
Nc State University$935,2098n/a
Texas A&M University$932,6843n/a
University of Delaware$808,65650%
Georgia Tech Research Corporation$626,74580%
Fisheries Data Solution LLC$583,4877n/a
FL Fish & Wildlife Conservation$533,5815n/a
Florida Institute of Technology Inc$463,39360%
Mote Marine Laboratory Inc$380,19670%
American Shore & Beach Preservation Association$357,021412%
East Carolina University$351,3316n/a
Florida International University$298,5994n/a
Regents of the University of California$255,2265n/a
Second Creek Consulting LLC$242,3847n/a
Coastal Carolina University Research Foundation$236,4684n/a
South Carolina Network$204,6117n/a
Georgia Department of Natural Resources$204,4263n/a
Florida Gulf Coast University$167,9693n/a
McKim & Creed Inc$147,6002n/a
Codar Ocean Sensors Ltd$127,9461n/a
University of Georgia$111,8352n/a
Teledyne Bethos$111,2852n/a
Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System Inc$107,85322%
Surflinewavetrak Inc$101,6612n/a
Florida Atlantic University$60,3893n/a
Roffer's Ocean Fishing Forecasting Service$45,0001n/a
University of Florida$40,3412n/a
Jacksonville University$39,86320%
Duncan Parnell Inc$34,6431n/a
University of Hawaii System$27,3001n/a
Esp Advisors LLC$27,0002n/a
University of Florida$26,3071n/a
Blue Coast Analytics$24,9462n/a
Willis Towers Watson Northeast Inc$24,5831n/a
Thriving Blue Consulting$23,8262n/a
Rdsea International Inc$22,5511n/a
Sc Sea Grant Consortium$19,7731n/a
Talley Inc$19,5951n/a
Mooring Systems Inc$18,6411n/a
Anchor Marine & Industrial Supply Inc$17,7001n/a
Sea-Bird Electronics Inc$16,4741n/a
Campbell Scientific$14,5751n/a
Pp Systems International LLC$11,9001n/a
Tessco$11,3481n/a
Telestra Technologies LLC$10,3641n/a
Doppler Ltd$6,1001n/a
Strategic Accounting Outsource Solutions LLC$6,0001n/a
Skidaway Institute of Oceanography$5,6671n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($33k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $2,258,419 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $1,735,488 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Delaware: $808,656 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Tech Research Corporation: $626,745 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFlorida Institute of Technology Inc: $463,393 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMote Marine Laboratory Inc: $380,196 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Shore & Beach Preservation Association: $357,021 over 4y, 12% of budgetCaribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System Inc: $107,853 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetJacksonville University: $39,863 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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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 FoundationDC15.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Nova Southeastern University Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association

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 Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association

How much does Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association give?
Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association reported 42 itemized grants totaling $5,174,336, out of $6,156,998 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (74%), Science & Tech (24%), Education (2%).
Who are Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of South Florida ($4.4M), University of North Carolina at Wilmington - College of Health & Human Serv ($3.8M), Axiom Data Sciences LLC ($3.4M).
Does Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Nova Southeastern University Inc, National Collegiate Athletic Association.
Where is Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association based?
Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association is based in SC.

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 58 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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