Maryland · Nonprofit
MINORITIES IN AQUACULTURE
MINORITIES IN AQUACULTURE (Maryland) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $307,051 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $139k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $307k
- Net assets
- $-40547
What Minorities in Aquaculture does
Mission
Educating women of color on the environmental benefits of local and global aquaculture industries.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
INTERNSHIPS Women & Girls, Oyster South, South Carolina Sea Grant These internship programs provides an accessible opportunity to people looking to learn more about viable career options in this marine occupation. Gaining technical skills in the field, interns have the opportunity to see the work through MIAs lens, with a focus on the culture and history of minorities underrepresented demographics in aquaculture. In order to connect MIA members to internships and career growth opportunities in the seafood industry, the organization maintains a strong network of industry partners that are dedicated to diversifying aquacultures workforce sector. Our partners work with us to develop exclusive internship opportunities that provide the experience our MIA members need to build their careers.
$100,000 spent100% of program spendingMINORITIES ON COURSE, The Minorities On Course program provides captains of the Chesapeake Bay a space to pass along their traditional ecological knowledge, and build a community among minorities in aquaculture. Creating a career pipeline for people of color to become captains on the Chesapeake.
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $100,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $62k to $100k (+60%).
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.
92% of MINORITIES IN AQUACULTURE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Imani Black
CEO
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $14k → $47k.
2 of 14 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 MINORITIES IN AQUACULTURE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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
MINORITIES IN AQUACULTURE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
47% 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 MINORITIES IN AQUACULTURE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 44% · 2023 54% — 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.
Where its funders are
MINORITIES IN AQUACULTURE draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $67k 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
MINORITIES IN AQUACULTURE's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,135 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Government funding MINORITIES IN AQUACULTURE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $67k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$67k
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 MINORITIES IN AQUACULTURE
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
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 MINORITIES IN AQUACULTURE: 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 MINORITIES IN AQUACULTURE?
- MINORITIES IN AQUACULTURE (Maryland) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $307,051 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINORITIES IN AQUACULTURE have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $307,051 in grants to MINORITIES IN AQUACULTURE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINORITIES IN AQUACULTURE?
- The Pew Charitable Trusts is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINORITIES IN AQUACULTURE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2022–2023), and the filings of 14 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