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GULF COAST CENTER FOR ECOTOURISM & SUSTAINABILITY INC

GULF COAST CENTER FOR ECOTOURISM & SUSTAINABILITY INC (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $352,974 to it, the largest being TASTE OF THE SOUTH ($352,974). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$402k
Revenue FY2024
1
Funders on record
$353k
Grants received
$410k
Net assets
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 48%

Against its field

GULF COAST CENTER FOR ECOTOURISM & SUSTAINABILITY INC is better cushioned than half of the 4,260 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−7% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve10.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,260 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($242k) Expenses 100 ($247k) Net assets 100 ($116k)2021 Revenue 120 ($291k) Expenses 140 ($345k) Net assets 53 ($61k)2022 Revenue 139 ($335k) Expenses 107 ($265k) Net assets 114 ($132k)2023 Revenue 303 ($732k) Expenses 165 ($408k) Net assets 394 ($456k)2024 Revenue 166 ($402k) Expenses 173 ($428k) Net assets 355 ($410k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (166)Expenses (173)Net assets (355)Peer revenue range

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 71% · 2021 68% · 2022 89% · 2023 41% · 2024 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

87% of GULF COAST CENTER FOR ECOTOURISM & SUSTAINABILITY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,616 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’20
−$54k
’21
$71k
’22
$324k
’23
−$26k
’24
11
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
total
Taste of the Southunclassified
$353k
funders
1

From the IRS filings of GULF COAST CENTER FOR ECOTOURISM & SUSTAINABILITY 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.

Where its funders are

GULF COAST CENTER FOR ECOTOURISM & SUSTAINABILITY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 1 state in all.

DC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

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.

Organizations like GULF COAST CENTER FOR ECOTOURISM & SUSTAINABILITY 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 Alabama

Gulf Coast Resource Conservation and Development Area82%Dolphin Foundation for Education & Arts Inc74%Coastal Gateway Regional Economic Development Alliance74%Coastal Alabama Partnership73%National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico73%Alabama Coastal Heritage Trust73%Alabama Coastal Foundation Inc73%Nuisance Group72%

Nationally

Gulf Coast Resource Conservation and Development Area82%Gulf Coast Business Council Research Foundation Inc77%Gulf Coast Nonprofit Center Inc77%Global Eco Adventures Inc77%Gulf Conservation Alliance77%Environmental Center of San Luis Obispo76%Coastal Conservation & Research76%Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc75%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
89%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GULF COAST CENTER FOR ECOTOURISM & SUSTAINABILITY 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds GULF COAST CENTER FOR ECOTOURISM & SUSTAINABILITY INC?
GULF COAST CENTER FOR ECOTOURISM & SUSTAINABILITY INC (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $352,974 to it, the largest being TASTE OF THE SOUTH ($352,974). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GULF COAST CENTER FOR ECOTOURISM & SUSTAINABILITY INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $352,974 in grants to GULF COAST CENTER FOR ECOTOURISM & SUSTAINABILITY INC.
Who is the largest funder of GULF COAST CENTER FOR ECOTOURISM & SUSTAINABILITY INC?
TASTE OF THE SOUTH is the largest funder on record, with $352,974 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GULF COAST CENTER FOR ECOTOURISM & SUSTAINABILITY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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