Tennessee · Nonprofit
DIVING WITH A PURPOSE AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC
DIVING WITH A PURPOSE AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $262,920 to it, the largest being OCEAN CONSERVANCY ($80,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $200k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $263k
- Net assets
- $102k
What Diving With a Purpose and Development Group Inc does
Mission
Diving with a Purpose (DWP) We are dedicated to the conservation and protection of submerged heritage resources by providing education, training, certification and field experience to adults and youth in the fields of maritime archaeology and ocean conservation. Our special focus is the protection, documentation and interpretation of African slave trade shipwrecks and the maritime history and culture of African Americans.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Diving with a Purpose (DWP) is a leading international organization that provides education and training programs, mission leadership, and project support services for submerged heritage preservation and conservation projects worldwide with a focus on the African Diaspora. DWP CARES is committed to providing a foundation for participants to be able to identify key coral reef species, communicating to the public the effect of climate change on our coastal and reef ecosystems, facilitating and communicating findings (data) from reef monitoring surveys and developing participants as leaders in conservation.
$175,055 spent$296,290 earned by the program65% of program spendingDiving with a Purpose (DWP) is a leading international organization that provides education and training programs, mission leadership, and project support services for submerged heritage preservation and conservation projects worldwide with a focus on the African Diaspora. DWP dedicated a memorial to the Tuskegee Airmen of WWII to memorialize five pilots who perished in accidents in the Port Huron, Michigan area August 28th, 2021
$56,329 spent$19,239 earned by the program21% of program spendingDiving with a Purpose (DWP) is a community-focused nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation and protection of submerged heritage resources by providing education, training, certification and field experience to adults and youth in the fields of maritime archaeology and ocean conservation. YDWP participates gather at Biscayne National Park and learn underwater archaeology with DWP instructors, following the program listed above for DWP. They also look for ways to challenge interest and broaden knowledge related to the vast aquatic environment.
$12,621 spent5% of program spendingA partnership with a partnership with the Smithsonian to teach aquatic skills to the natives.
$24,198 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $268,203.
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.
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 $388k to $102k (−74%).
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: 2021 0% · 2022 5% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of DIVING WITH A PURPOSE AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (79% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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 broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $46k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 DIVING WITH A PURPOSE AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP 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
DIVING WITH A PURPOSE AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 DIVING WITH A PURPOSE AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 63% · 2021 42% · 2022 87% · 2023 46% — 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
20% of DIVING WITH A PURPOSE AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 27% give in more than one year at all.
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
DIVING WITH A PURPOSE AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
DIVING WITH A PURPOSE AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 793 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like DIVING WITH A PURPOSE AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP 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 Tennessee
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DIVING WITH A PURPOSE AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC?
- DIVING WITH A PURPOSE AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $262,920 to it, the largest being OCEAN CONSERVANCY ($80,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DIVING WITH A PURPOSE AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $262,920 in grants to DIVING WITH A PURPOSE AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DIVING WITH A PURPOSE AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC?
- OCEAN CONSERVANCY is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DIVING WITH A PURPOSE AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 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