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GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE

GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Maine) receives grants from 159 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,100,891 to it, the largest being HARTE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($7,203,622). 114 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$23M
Funders on record
159
Grants received
$46M
Net assets
$45M
114/159 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 48%
01What it does

What Gulf of Maine Research Institute does

Mission

The Gulf of Maine Research Institute (gmri) develops and delivers collaborative solutions to global ocean challenges.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Research that deepens our scientific understanding of the gulf of maine ecosystem and economy.

    $4,400,557 spent$114,209 earned by the program
    33% of program spending

  2. Hands-on science learning experiences for students and adults and support for maine's science educators.

    $5,793,135 spent$8,900 earned by the program
    44% of program spending

  3. Support for the communities that depend on the gulf of maine, including fishermen, aquaculturists, and seafood supply chain businesses.

    $2,168,321 spent$28,758 earned by the program
    17% of program spending

  4. Creating, scaling, and investing in high-impact companies that advance gmri's nonprofit mission.

    $777,926 spent$125,532 earned by the program
    6% of program spending

  5. Gmri provides property management services to gmp, whose purpose is to support gmri, and receives other exempt purpose revenue which supports gmri's exempt purpose. Gmri also provides property management services to uw, a for-profit subsidiary of gmri.

    $0 spent$792,905 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

  6. Local, state, national, and global climate actions to help coastal communities thrive in a warmer world.

    $0 spent$499,440 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,139,939.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($12M) Expenses 100 ($10M) Net assets 100 ($17M)2019 Revenue 121 ($14M) Expenses 104 ($10M) Net assets 121 ($20M)2020 Revenue 138 ($16M) Expenses 120 ($12M) Net assets 143 ($24M)2021 Revenue 113 ($13M) Expenses 114 ($11M) Net assets 164 ($28M)2022 Revenue 134 ($15M) Expenses 130 ($13M) Net assets 180 ($30M)2023 Revenue 168 ($19M) Expenses 153 ($15M) Net assets 209 ($35M)2024 Revenue 175 ($20M) Expenses 176 ($18M) Net assets 233 ($39M)2025 Revenue 202 ($23M) Expenses 193 ($19M) Net assets 267 ($45M)
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Revenue (202)Expenses (193)Net assets (267)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 2021 to 2022, from $29M to $45M (+54%).

$18M
$22M
$26M
$29M
$45M
$50M
$54M
$59M
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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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 39% · 2019 35% · 2020 39% · 2021 43% · 2022 44% · 2023 43% · 2024 51% · 2025 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

90% of GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (67% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 238 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.5M
’17
$3.5M
’19
$3.9M
’20
$1.6M
’21
$2.4M
’22
$4.0M
’23
$2.5M
’24
$4.0M
’25
5.7
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.

Board chair

Michael Bonney

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed2432323534323439
Joined··+5+6+8+4+6+7
No longer listed··539642
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 43 funders to 73 funders, grant income rose $2.9M → $6.1M.

Funder
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total
funders
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20 of 159 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 159 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

GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

44% 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 GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE.

16%
largest funder
32%
top three
~17
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 33% · 2019 22% · 2020 22% · 2021 20% · 2022 13% · 2023 22% — growing more concentrated.

“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

53% of GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 21 states in all.

ME
VT
NH
MT
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
TX
FL

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

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Maine out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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

GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 134 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin17% · above the median
Months of reserve5.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 134 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $41.0M on record — $40.8M federal, $116k state.

Federal$40.8M
grants $40.8Mcontracts $64k
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Top agencies
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration$16.5M
  • Department of Commerce$9.8M
  • National Science Foundation$9.8M
  • Department of Agriculture$3.0M
  • Small Business Administration$632k
  • Environmental Protection Agency$606k
State$116k
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Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$116k

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 GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE

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 Maine

Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation83%Northern Maine Medical Center80%Maine People's Resource Center78%Greater Portland Landmarks Inc78%Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting78%Blue Hill Heritage Trust77%Upstart Maine Inc77%Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries76%

Nationally

The Water Institute of the Gulf84%Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation83%Gulf of Maine Institute Inc82%Migramar82%Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated81%Gulf Seafood Institute Inc81%National Marine Sanctuary Foundation81%Greater Grays Harbor Inc81%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 25%Fundraising 7%

Governance

22
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

87%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • Union Wharf LLC · disregarded
  • Gulf of Maine Ventures LLC · disregarded
  • Gulf of Maine Properties Inc · exempt
  • Gulf of Maine Properties I a Condominium · corp_trust
  • Gulf of Maine Sashimi Inc · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Maine) receives grants from 159 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,100,891 to it, the largest being HARTE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($7,203,622). 114 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE have?
IRS filings report 159 organizations giving $46,100,891 in grants to GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 114 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
HARTE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,203,622 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 159 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