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CENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC

CENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC (Delaware) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $869,782 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.0M
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$870k
Net assets
$2.1M
16/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Center for the Inland Bays Inc does

Mission

Dedication to oversee and facilitate implementation of long-term care for the wise use and enhancement of the inland bays watershed.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization is dedicated to the continued health and restoration of the delaware inland bays and the surrounding watershed areas.

    $2,567,416 spent$2,866,227 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,567,416.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 75 ($1.2M) Expenses 97 ($1.4M) Net assets 88 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 136 ($2.2M) Expenses 106 ($1.5M) Net assets 128 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 156 ($2.5M) Expenses 127 ($1.8M) Net assets 163 ($2.8M)2023 Revenue 227 ($3.6M) Expenses 207 ($3.0M) Net assets 203 ($3.5M)2024 Revenue 188 ($3.0M) Expenses 312 ($4.5M) Net assets 123 ($2.1M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (188)Expenses (312)Net assets (123)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $3.7M to $2.3M (−37%).

$1.8M
$1.7M
$2.4M
$2.9M
$3.7M
$2.3M
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 64% · 2020 78% · 2021 67% · 2022 58% · 2023 66% · 2024 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of CENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,293 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$161k
’19
−$207k
’20
$650k
’21
$668k
’22
$640k
’23
−$1.5M
’24
2.6
months of
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.

Chief executive

Christophe Tulou

Executive director

Board chair

Pat Coluzzi

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201920202021202220232024
Listed141415141716
Joined·+0+5+4+5+0
No longer listed·04521
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $7k → $140k.

6 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 CENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS 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

CENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

47% 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 CENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC.

23%
largest funder
53%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 43% · 2019 82% · 2020 26% · 2021 57% · 2022 40% · 2023 57% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

56% of CENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

91% of CENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC's grant income comes from Delaware funders.

ME
IL
NY
NJ
CT
MD
DE
DC
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Delaware out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $284k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC has grown faster than half of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−49% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding CENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.7M on record.

Federal$10.7M
grants $10.7Mcontracts $0
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26
Top agencies
  • Environmental Protection Agency$10.7M
  • Department of the Interior$41k

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 CENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC

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 Delaware

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 12%Fundraising 5%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

DE

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Questions and answers

Who funds CENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC?
CENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC (Delaware) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $869,782 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $869,782 in grants to CENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC?
LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 26 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