Massachusetts · Nonprofit
NORTH AMERICAN MARINE ALLIANCE INC
NORTH AMERICAN MARINE ALLIANCE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,628,290 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,088,800). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What North American Marine Alliance Inc does
Mission
Nama is a fishermen-led organization building a broad movement toward healthy fisheries and fishing communities. We build deep and trusting relationships with community based fishermen, crew, fishworkers and allies to create effective policy and market strategies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Enhanced the process by which fisherman and other stakeholders in the north american can implement new policies and marketing strategies that protect the marine ecosystem and coastal fishing communities while educating the public about the marine environment and the role of the fisherman in protecting our marine resources.
$1,335,978 spent$2,742,214 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,335,978.
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 2023 to 2024, from $634k to $1.8M (+178%).
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.
100% of NORTH AMERICAN MARINE ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $240k → $1.0M.
10 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 NORTH AMERICAN MARINE ALLIANCE 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
NORTH AMERICAN MARINE ALLIANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% 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 NORTH AMERICAN MARINE ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 37% · 2019 40% · 2020 45% · 2021 45% · 2022 43% · 2023 29% — 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
43% of NORTH AMERICAN MARINE ALLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
64% of NORTH AMERICAN MARINE ALLIANCE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.0M that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
NORTH AMERICAN MARINE ALLIANCE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like NORTH AMERICAN MARINE ALLIANCE INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN MARINE ALLIANCE INC?
- NORTH AMERICAN MARINE ALLIANCE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,628,290 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,088,800). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTH AMERICAN MARINE ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $5,628,290 in grants to NORTH AMERICAN MARINE ALLIANCE INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH AMERICAN MARINE ALLIANCE INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $2,088,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH AMERICAN MARINE ALLIANCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 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