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Institute of Maritime Research and Discovery Ltd
Institute of Maritime Research and Discovery Ltd (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,805 to it, the largest being NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ($79,730). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $25k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $90k
- Net assets
- $62k
What Institute of Maritime Research and Discovery Ltd does
Mission
Part III Attachment-Nile Maritime Study
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Primary field project is archeological excavation of a Nile River site dating to the Kushite Kingdom-a little known maritime society that thrived for thousands of years.
$37,300 spent58% of program spendingPublication of the Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections via suscriptions to more than 60 major universities featuring articles for academia and the public.
$17,000 spent26% of program spendingResearch - Middle East archeology.
$10,032 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $64,332.
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.
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 $105k to $62k (−41%).
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.
86% of Institute of Maritime Research and Discovery Ltd’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $30k → $10k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 Institute of Maritime Research and Discovery Ltd’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
Institute of Maritime Research and Discovery Ltd leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Institute of Maritime Research and Discovery Ltd.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Institute of Maritime Research and Discovery Ltd draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
Institute of Maritime Research and Discovery Ltd's revenue fell 45% between 2020 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Institute of Maritime Research and Discovery Ltd
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
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 Institute of Maritime Research and Discovery Ltd: 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 Institute of Maritime Research and Discovery Ltd?
- Institute of Maritime Research and Discovery Ltd (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,805 to it, the largest being NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ($79,730). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Institute of Maritime Research and Discovery Ltd have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $89,805 in grants to Institute of Maritime Research and Discovery Ltd, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Institute of Maritime Research and Discovery Ltd?
- NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $79,730 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Institute of Maritime Research and Discovery Ltd find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 3 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