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BLUE WORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC

BLUE WORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,076 to it, the largest being Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Foundation Inc ($39,588). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.4M
Revenue FY2024
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Funders on record
$64k
Grants received
$337k
Net assets
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%

Against its field

BLUE WORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 481 science & tech nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)125% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 481 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($19k) Expenses 100 ($21k) Net assets -10 ($-2045)2019 Revenue 1429 ($267k) Expenses 1174 ($246k) Net assets 100 ($21k)2020 Revenue 1898 ($355k) Expenses 1232 ($258k) Net assets 561 ($117k)2021 Revenue 4333 ($809k) Expenses 3644 ($763k) Net assets 762 ($159k)2022 Revenue 8041 ($1.5M) Expenses 6591 ($1.4M) Net assets 1271 ($266k)2023 Revenue 13549 ($2.5M) Expenses 11509 ($2.4M) Net assets 1683 ($352k)2024 Revenue 12895 ($2.4M) Expenses 11583 ($2.4M) Net assets 1613 ($337k)
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Revenue (12895)Expenses (11583)Net assets (1613)Peer revenue range
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)23% 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 BLUE WORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE 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

BLUE WORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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

84% 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 BLUE WORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC.

62%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 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

100% of BLUE WORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.

FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k 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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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.

Government funding BLUE WORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.8M on record.

Federal$13.8M
grants $0contracts $13.8M
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Top agencies
  • Department of the Interior$13.8M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like BLUE WORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE 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.

In Florida

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLUE WORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BLUE WORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC?
BLUE WORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,076 to it, the largest being Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Foundation Inc ($39,588). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BLUE WORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $64,076 in grants to BLUE WORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BLUE WORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC?
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $39,588 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BLUE WORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), 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