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BAHAMAS MARINE ECOCENTRE
BAHAMAS MARINE ECOCENTRE (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $137,158 to it, the largest being THE AGOURON INSTITUTE ($137,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $137k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $137k
- Net assets
- $90k
What Bahamas Marine Ecocentre does
Mission
Research and Education: Bahamas Marine EcoCentre focuses on marine science education and research and promotes scientific and artistic activities that foster environmental stewardship. In 2025, activities were focused in three geographic areas: Bahamas, Western Australia, and Northern Chile, as outlined in Lines 28-30. Research on gypsum depositional system in lagoons in the Atacama Desert, which initiated as a consulting service in 2017, became a funded research project in 2018. Supported by the Chilean mining company, SQM, BME is investigating the role of microbes in sedimentation in the desert lagoon systems.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Program activities in the Bahamas in 2025 involved maintenance of the Darby Island Research Station, and eventual closure of the lab due to the sale of Little Darby Island. Lab equipment and resources were donated to Bahamas National Trust Moriah Harbor Cay National Park. One publication from research at the research station: Kalderon-Asael, B., Wang, J., Planavsky, Oehlert, A.M., N.J., Vitek, B.E., Reid, R.P., Tarhan, L.J. 2025. Evaluation of early diagenetic signatures of lithium and stable strontium isotopes in shallow marine carbonate sediments. Chemical Geology v. 676.
$20,705 spent29% of program spendingOur second geographic area of research was the Atacama Desertof northern Chile where we continued monitoring stromatolite growth in saline lagoons. This research involved two research fellows and a consultant. Program expenses pertain to field activities, sample analyses and writing reports and publications. Two papers were published from results of this research : 1. Suosaari, E.P., Dupraz, C., Oehlert, A.M., Lascu, I., Vitek, B.E., Piggot, A.M. Palma, A.T., Reid, R.P. (2025) Coupled authigenic Mg silicate and carbonate precipitation in saline lakes of the Salar de Atacama, Northern Chile. The Depositional Record, 00, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1002/dep2.70055 and 2. Kong, T., Reid, R.P.; Suosaari, E.P., Maizel,D., Daza, L.R., Palma, A.T., Oehlert, A.M. 2025. Lake morphology and meteorological conditions impact stratification of saline lakes in the Atacama Desert. Plos One https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0321759. Program service costs include payments to university laboratories for sample analysis and consulting services.
$50,098 spent71% of program spendingA third area of research activity was Western Australia,where we cont'd research into modern marine stromatolites in Shark Bay. This research involved one research fellow, Erica Suosaari who is working on a monograph summarizing publications resulting from all our research in Shark Bay for the past 20 years. An additional paper documenting results from our Shark Bay research was published: Pollier, C.G.L., Reid, R.P., Suosaari, E.P., Vitek B. E., Dupraz C., Oehlert A. M.. Arsenic enrichment patterns are defined by microbialite morphology, fabric, and accretion mechanism. Nature Communications 16, 10218 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-65007-4. Program expenses largely supported the research fellow.
$0 spentof which $25,000 as grants0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $70,803.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $21k to $135k (+546%).
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 BAHAMAS MARINE ECOCENTRE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $65k → $42.
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 BAHAMAS MARINE ECOCENTRE’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
BAHAMAS MARINE ECOCENTRE 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 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
BAHAMAS MARINE ECOCENTRE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $158 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
BAHAMAS MARINE ECOCENTRE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BAHAMAS MARINE ECOCENTRE?
- BAHAMAS MARINE ECOCENTRE (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $137,158 to it, the largest being THE AGOURON INSTITUTE ($137,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BAHAMAS MARINE ECOCENTRE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $137,158 in grants to BAHAMAS MARINE ECOCENTRE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BAHAMAS MARINE ECOCENTRE?
- THE AGOURON INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $137,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BAHAMAS MARINE ECOCENTRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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