Nonprofit
BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES BIOS INC
BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES BIOS INC receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $578,470 to it, the largest being University of Miami ($460,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES BIOS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 149 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 149 science & tech nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- National Academy of Sciencesshared fundersportfolio match
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared funders
- Rock the Ocean Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 58% · 2018 70% · 2019 73% · 2020 39% · 2021 73% · 2022 57% · 2023 54% · 2024 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES BIOS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $125k → $135k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES BIOS INC’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
BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES BIOS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% 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 BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES BIOS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- National Academy of Sciencesshared fundersportfolio matchDC · backs 78 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 88 organizations that share your funders
- Rock the Ocean Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Schmidt Ocean Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Revive & Restoreportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Agouron Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Marine Sanctuary Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Morris Animal Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Museum of Natural Historyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eppley Foundation for Research Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Earthwatch Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seti Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES BIOS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Arizona State University · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES BIOS INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES BIOS INC?
- BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES BIOS INC receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $578,470 to it, the largest being University of Miami ($460,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES BIOS INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $578,470 in grants to BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES BIOS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES BIOS INC?
- University of Miami is the largest funder on record, with $460,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES BIOS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing