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Tampa Bay Wave Inc

See schedule o. Headquartered in downtown tampa, tampa bay wave is a by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in february 2011 with a mission to accelerate florida's innovation economy by helping entrepreneurs transform innovative ideas into real-world solutions and scalable businesses in tampa bay and communities…

$1.9M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2025
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Median grant, FY2025
$72,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$454,758
States reached, FY2025
11
Total assets, FY2025
$2.8M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2025 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Seaworthy Foundation Inc$454,7581n/a
Braid Theory$360,2731n/a
St Petersburg Innovation District Inc$110,3331n/a
Marine Technology Society Inc$105,64312%
Hawaii Ocean Power Solutions$90,0001n/a
Tini Scientific$85,0001n/a
Clean Earth Rovers Inc$75,0001n/a
Fleet Robotics$75,0001n/a
Dottir Labs Inc$74,5891n/a
Oceanfarmr USA Inc$72,5001n/a
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All grantees of Tampa Bay Wave Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Seaworthy Foundation Inc$454,7581n/a
Braid Theory$360,2731n/a
St Petersburg Innovation District Inc$110,3331n/a
Marine Technology Society Inc$105,64312%
Hawaii Ocean Power Solutions$90,0001n/a
Tini Scientific$85,0001n/a
Clean Earth Rovers Inc$75,0001n/a
Fleet Robotics$75,0001n/a
Dottir Labs Inc$74,5891n/a
Oceanfarmr USA Inc$72,5001n/a
Bluesonde Technologies$67,5001n/a
Neuralx Inc$65,0001n/a
Actea Inc$57,5001n/a
World Ocean Council$41,5201n/a
Tampa Deep Sea Xplorers Inc$25,0001n/a
Hydrokinetx Corporation$25,0001n/a
Seawarrdd Technologies Inc$25,0001n/a
Robobuoy Inc$25,0001n/a
Coralx Foundation Inc$25,0001n/a
University of South Florida$11,7561n/a

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About Tampa Bay Wave Inc

How much does Tampa Bay Wave Inc give?
Tampa Bay Wave Inc reported 20 grants totaling $1,871,372 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
Who are Tampa Bay Wave Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2025 to FY2025: Seaworthy Foundation Inc ($455k), Braid Theory ($360k), St Petersburg Innovation District Inc ($110k).
Where is Tampa Bay Wave Inc based?
Tampa Bay Wave Inc is based in FL.

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 20 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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