Hawaii · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE EXPLORATION
ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE EXPLORATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,538 to it, the largest being CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ($29,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $103k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $104k
What Association for Marine Exploration does
Mission
The Association for Marine Exploration (AME) conducts and facilitates innovative scientific exploration of undersea environments. Through the novel application of advanced diving equipment and techniques, we provide unprecedented opportunities for research and discovery in ways not possible by conventional means. The overriding goal of this organization is to foster increased knowledge about the ocean and its inhabitants, enabling better understanding and more effective preservation of a wide range of marine habitats. The organization serves the scientific and diving community as a vehicle to obtain previously inaccessible data that enables new insights and discoveries about the underwater world.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
ACTIVITIES (2022) 1) Officers of the Association for Marine Exploration began planning and conducted an initial expedition to explore deep coral-reef environments American Samoa, in collaboration with Bishop Museum, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Foundation, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, and other partners. This work is funded by a grant from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. 2) Officers of the Association for Marine Exploration, in conjunction with the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, continued planning a series of expeditions to survey fishes at Wake Atoll, funded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and in support of the U.S. Airforce Base located at Wake Atoll. The purpose of the surveys is to examine the potential impact of recreational fishing activities by contract workers at the Atoll, and to provide information and outreach (including a video kiosk at the airport) to inform visitors and contract workers about fishing regulations and reporting requirements. 3) In addition to these specific projects, the Association for Marine Exploration continued to maintain its diving equipment and maintain and update its website, and to provide…
$0 spentof which $103,400 as grants
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE EXPLORATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (79% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Joseph Jituri
CEO
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $23k → $11.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE EXPLORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE EXPLORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE EXPLORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE EXPLORATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE EXPLORATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 690 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 690 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022
Organizations like ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE EXPLORATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Hawaii
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE EXPLORATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE EXPLORATION?
- ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE EXPLORATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,538 to it, the largest being CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ($29,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE EXPLORATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $29,538 in grants to ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE EXPLORATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE EXPLORATION?
- CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $29,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE EXPLORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Hawaii. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2018–2022), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing