Florida · Nonprofit
GRAY FISHTAG RESEARCH INC
GRAY FISHTAG RESEARCH INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,822 to it, the largest being THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($54,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $125k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $103k
- Net assets
- $112k
What Gray Fishtag Research Inc does
Mission
Fish tagging game fish, tracking and reporting results
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Fish tagging. Game fishing and reporting results
$0 spent0% of program spendingGray fishtag research ("the organization") maintains a website: www.grayfishtagresearch.org and makes available (to the scientific community at large), information on its fish-tagging activities. The organization was formed for the purpose of tagging fish and tracking those fish and their habits. The organization, through fishing captains and mates, tags fish and notes on reports, the location where tagged, length and weight and location. This information is provided to the general public at large and is also made available to scientists, including oceanographers and the public at large.all this information is available on its website. The organization has a research scientist on-site that coordinates all the data, the organization continues to work closely with scientists from the ocean centers at nova university and the university of miami. It provides information to these universities for use in scientific research of fish habits and habitats. The organization uses 'state of the art' methods in tagging fish and tracking those fish, gathering information on migration habits and patterns. The directors of the organization have been in the fish maritime industry and have access to…
$128,802 spentof which $114,356 as grants100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $128,802.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $87k to $170k (+96%).
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.
100% of GRAY FISHTAG RESEARCH INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $28k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 GRAY FISHTAG RESEARCH 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
GRAY FISHTAG RESEARCH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 GRAY FISHTAG RESEARCH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 80% · 2022 55% · 2023 43% — 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.
Where its funders are
53% of GRAY FISHTAG RESEARCH INC'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 $49k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k 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
GRAY FISHTAG RESEARCH INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding GRAY FISHTAG RESEARCH INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $50
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 GRAY FISHTAG RESEARCH 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GRAY FISHTAG RESEARCH 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 GRAY FISHTAG RESEARCH INC?
- GRAY FISHTAG RESEARCH INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,822 to it, the largest being THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($54,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GRAY FISHTAG RESEARCH INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $102,822 in grants to GRAY FISHTAG RESEARCH INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRAY FISHTAG RESEARCH INC?
- THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $54,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRAY FISHTAG RESEARCH 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.
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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 2018–2024), and the filings of 5 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