Florida · Nonprofit
MINORITIES IN SHARK SCIENCES INC
MINORITIES IN SHARK SCIENCES INC (Florida) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,066,132 to it, the largest being Charles and Margery Barancik Foundation Inc ($405,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MINORITIES IN SHARK SCIENCES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trustshared funderslocal
- Rock the Ocean Foundationportfolio match
- Earthwatch Institute Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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: 2022 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of MINORITIES IN SHARK SCIENCES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $355k → $105k.
7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 SHARK SCIENCES 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.
How concentrated its funding is
MINORITIES IN SHARK SCIENCES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 64%; 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: 2022 70% · 2023 26% — diversifying over time.
“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
55% of MINORITIES IN SHARK SCIENCES INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $133k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.
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. Your 24 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trustshared funderslocalFL · backs 69 organizations that share your funders · funds 103 organizations near you
- Rock the Ocean Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Earthwatch Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lat Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cook Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Andrew M Heller Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prigmore Family Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fountain 33 Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nesburn Family Foundation Co Anthony B Nesburn Mdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Everglades Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wolfsohn Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way Suncoast Incshared fundersFL · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
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 MINORITIES IN SHARK SCIENCES 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MINORITIES IN SHARK SCIENCES 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.
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 MINORITIES IN SHARK SCIENCES INC?
- MINORITIES IN SHARK SCIENCES INC (Florida) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,066,132 to it, the largest being Charles and Margery Barancik Foundation Inc ($405,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINORITIES IN SHARK SCIENCES INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,066,132 in grants to MINORITIES IN SHARK SCIENCES INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINORITIES IN SHARK SCIENCES INC?
- Charles and Margery Barancik Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $405,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINORITIES IN SHARK SCIENCES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 24funders 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