Massachusetts · Nonprofit
GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED
GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED (Massachusetts) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,136,260 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($4,165,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated does
Mission
Gloucester marine genomics institute addreses critical challenges facing our oceans, human health and the environment through innovative scientific research and education. By bringing world-class science and transformative workforce development to gloucester's historic waterfront, gmgi is catalyzing the regional economy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Research - gmgi's research is at the forefront of genomic innovation to advance our understanding of the oceans, inform effective conservation management, promote sustainable fisheries, and uncover new discoveries that impact human health. The research program has two main divisions: 1) healthy oceans and fisheries and 2) marine biomedical discovery.
$2,617,901 spent$123,938 earned by the program60% of program spendingGloucester biotechnology academy - gloucester biotechnology academy is the vibrant educational arm of gmgi. The academy provides tuition-free laboratory training that prepares young adults for careers in biotechnology, without needing a four-year degree. Students train in professional teaching laboratories, learning techniques used by working scientists, from dna analysis and cell culture to biomanufacturing. They also complete paid co-ops with biotechnology companies across the north shore, boston, and cambridge. In less than a year, graduates gain the skills, confidence, and industry connections needed to launch careers in the life sciences. Our summer stem programs are one-week courses designed to provide students with the opportunity to experience hands-on science in a biotechnology laboratory. Held in state-of-the-art teaching labs at gloucester biotechnology academy, the curricula immerse students in authentic laboratory investigations. Students use cutting-edge biotechnology equipment, the scientific method, and critical thinking to analyze samples and make data-driven conclusions.
$1,710,856 spentof which $278,564 as grants$14,575 earned by the program40% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,328,757.
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 $9.2M to $13M (+43%).
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 43% · 2018 44% · 2019 5% · 2020 20% · 2021 35% · 2022 18% · 2023 19% · 2024 9% · 2025 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (68% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Michele May
Board chair & treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $2.6M.
16 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 funders by total. 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
GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 39% · 2019 47% · 2020 32% · 2021 47% · 2022 17% · 2023 20% — 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
76% of GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
72% of GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4.2M that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED is better cushioned than half of the 234 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 234 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.5M on record — $3.3M federal, $3.2M state.
- National Science Foundation$1.8M
- Department of Commerce$1.1M
- Department of Agriculture$440k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$3.1M
- (NN) INFRASTRUCTURE:$94k
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$17k
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 GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED?
- GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED (Massachusetts) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,136,260 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($4,165,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $15,136,260 in grants to GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED?
- Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc is the largest funder on record, with $4,165,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 63 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing