Connecticut · Nonprofit
Interdistrict Committee For Project Oceanology
Interdistrict Committee For Project Oceanology (Connecticut) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,512 to it, the largest being THE SCRIPPS FAMILY FUND FOR EDUCATION AND THE ARTS ($44,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $134k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Interdistrict Committee For Project Oceanology does
Mission
Project Oceanology is a year-round marine science and environmental education organization with a mission to nurture interest and inspire enthusiasm for science and our planet's marine environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Summer Camps:We enhanced the educational value of our summer camps by refining the themed content offered each week, ensuring unique learning opportunities for both new and returning participants (with approximately 33% of campers returning annually). We also strengthened staff preparation by expanding behavior management training, delivered during both pre-season and mid-season sessions. Camp participation remained strong, with approximately 440 campers, maintaining the increased attendance levels achieved in prior years.School-Year Programs:We expanded our K12 programming by strengthening partnerships and successfully competing for grants that enhance our educational offerings and resources. Our curriculum continues to be updated and aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards to ensure high-quality, standards-based learning. Despite operating with one organizational research vessel instead of two, we maintained service levels comparable to prior years by contracting an additional vessel and increasing the number of licensed captains on staff. These investments improved our capacity to meet growing program demand during both the school year and summer months. Research,…
$1,434,219 spent$884,880 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,434,219.
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 2020 to 2021, from $716k to $1.4M (+97%).
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 37% · 2018 36% · 2019 10% · 2020 41% · 2021 43% · 2022 35% · 2023 24% · 2024 8% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of Interdistrict Committee For Project Oceanology’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Kathy Howard
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $15k → $8k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 Interdistrict Committee For Project Oceanology’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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
Interdistrict Committee For Project Oceanology leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 48% · 2021 33% · 2022 65% · 2023 86% — 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
50% of Interdistrict Committee For Project Oceanology's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
Interdistrict Committee For Project Oceanology draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k 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
Interdistrict Committee For Project Oceanology's revenue grew 34% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 210 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Interdistrict Committee For Project Oceanology receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.6M on record — $2.4M federal, $2.3M state.
- Department of Commerce$2.4M
- State Aid Grants$2.1M
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$135k
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 Interdistrict Committee For Project Oceanology
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 Interdistrict Committee For Project Oceanology: 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 Interdistrict Committee For Project Oceanology?
- Interdistrict Committee For Project Oceanology (Connecticut) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,512 to it, the largest being THE SCRIPPS FAMILY FUND FOR EDUCATION AND THE ARTS ($44,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Interdistrict Committee For Project Oceanology have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $133,512 in grants to Interdistrict Committee For Project Oceanology, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Interdistrict Committee For Project Oceanology?
- THE SCRIPPS FAMILY FUND FOR EDUCATION AND THE ARTS is the largest funder on record, with $44,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Interdistrict Committee For Project Oceanology find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 11 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