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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.

$6.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$537k
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 2025.

Environment$23MScience & Tech$7.5MEducation$503k
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 42 grants below total $5,174,336, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,156,998 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $982,662 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $423k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+8 grants · $3.4M
$57,829
Median grant
14
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $379k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $349k → 16%FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION: $317k → 19%FATHOM SCIENCE LLC: $221k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NC AT CH: $410k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $466k → 27%AXIOM DATA SCIENCES LLC: $251k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $290k → 10%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $524k → 22%UNC WILMINGTON: $548k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $342k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $642k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NC AT CH: $279k → 13%GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $258k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $455k → 27%AXIOM DATA SCIENCES LLC: $232k → 10%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $314k → 22%UNC WILMINGTON: $537k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $340k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $619k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $314k → 27%UNC WILMINGTON: $511k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $313k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $472k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $282k → 27%UNC WILMINGTON: $422k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $308k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $464k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $241k → 27%AXIOM DATA SCIENCES LLC: $744k → 10%UNC WILMINGTON: $408k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $291k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $449k → 13%AXIOM DATA SCIENCES LLC: $592k → 10%UNC WILMINGTON: $397k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $228k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $372k → 13%AXIOM DATA SCIENCES LLC: $401k → 10%UNC WILMINGTON: $342k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $300k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $442k → 13%AXIOM DATA SCIENCES LLC: $385k → 10%UNC WILMINGTON: $320k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $639k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $420k → 13%AXIOM DATA SCIENCES LLC: $366k → 10%UNC WILMINGTON: $305k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $431k → 13%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

AK
WA
NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
UT
VA
MD
DE
NC
SC
DC
HI
GA
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 11% of the giving stays in SC; by stated purpose, 0%.

Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Associationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$30M · 36 repeat orgs$499k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
10

Total granted

$30M
$353k

Still filing today

28%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthEnvironmentScience & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +80%
  • UO
    University of Miami
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +96%
  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
    5× · 2017–2025 · $809k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • CO
    CODAR OCEAN SENSORS LTD
    one grant, 2024 · $128k
  • RO
    ROFFER'S OCEAN FISHING FORECASTING SERVICE
    one grant, 2017 · $45k
  • DP
    DUNCAN PARNELL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $35k
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
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2
The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner
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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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
5
Nova Southeastern University Inc

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…

Education
6
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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7
Marine Biological Laboratory

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…

Science & Tech
8
Lehigh University

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…

Education
9
The Central European University

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…

International
10
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
11
Schmidt Ocean Institute
Science & Tech
12
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Delaware; 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.
05the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 58 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $4,387,303 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDAUniversity of North Carolina at Wilmington - College of Health & Human Serv: $3,788,411 · OtherUniversity of North Carolina at Wilmington - College of Health & Human ServAXIOM DATA SCIENCES LLC: $3,369,365 · OtherAXIOM DATA SCIENCES LLCUSC School of Medicine Greenville: $2,529,806 · OtherUSC School of Medicine GreenvilleUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $2,288,941 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLFATHOM SCIENCE LLC: $1,190,586 · OtherNC STATE UNIVERSITY: $935,209 · OtherTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $932,684 · Other+41 more: $5,413,901 · Other+41 moreUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $2,258,419 · EducationUniversity of Geo…University of Miami: $1,735,488 · EducationUniversity of Mia…FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $463,393 · EducationFLORIDA INSTITUTE…COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $236,468 · Education+1 more: $39,863 · EducationGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $626,745 · HealthAMERICAN SHORE & BEACH PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $357,021 · EnvironmentCARIBBEAN COASTAL OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM INC: $107,853 · Science & TechBROWN UNIVERSITY: $95,000 · Community Improvement
Other$24,836,206Education$4,733,631Health$626,745Environment$357,021Science & Tech$107,853Community Improvement$95,000

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 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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $235,085 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCARIBBEAN COASTAL OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM INC: $107,853 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $95,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJacksonville University: $39,863 over 2y, 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 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 ↗

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 Wil…Nova Southeastern Uni…National Collegiate A…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely 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 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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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home