California · Nonprofit
Noyo Center For Marine Science
Noyo Center For Marine Science (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $669,856 to it, the largest being SPIRIT OF MAX FOUNDATION ($312,500). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $670k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Noyo Center For Marine Science does
Mission
Conservation and restoration of marine and coastal natural resources. This incudes the provision and promotion of scientific research and public education in the sciences relating to marine and coastal resources.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Noyo Center celebrated its 10-Year Anniversary, marking the following decadal accomplishments: Established three facilities: Crows Nest Interpretive Center, Discovery Center, and Marine Field Station. Welcomed over 175,000 visitors across all facilities. Supported extensive community science programs, including urchin dockside sampling, intertidal sea star search, phytoplankton sampling, beach surveys for marine mammals, etc. Educated more than 20,000 youth. Hosted over 75 science talks. Removed more than 5,000 pounds of trash from beaches. Advanced regenerative aquaculture initiatives. Contributed to marine mammal research responding to over 700 animals and creating an extensive specimen collection. Kelp Recovery: Noyo Center launched a land-based regenerative aquaculture pilot project at its Field Station in Noyo Harbor to cultivate seaweeds and marine animals in ways that actively restore and improve ocean ecosystems and support the local economy. We have built a recirculating water system in a shipping container, pulling water from Noyo River on high tides. Purple urchin were the first animals in the system, testing the water quality while we explored ways to reduce grazing…
$950,330 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $950,330.
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 $450k to $1.3M (+193%).
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 22% · 2018 19% · 2021 16% · 2022 10% · 2023 38% · 2024 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of Noyo Center For Marine Science’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% 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.
Chief executive
Sheila Semans
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $31k → $146k.
5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Noyo Center For Marine Science’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
Noyo Center For Marine Science leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 62%; 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: 2017 81% · 2018 50% · 2019 35% · 2020 32% · 2021 28% · 2022 24% · 2023 62% — 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.
How long its funders stay
45% of Noyo Center For Marine Science's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
84% of Noyo Center For Marine Science's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $137k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Noyo Center For Marine Science has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Noyo Center For Marine Science receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of Commerce$1.1M
- Department of Agriculture$109k
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 Noyo Center For Marine Science
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Noyo Center For Marine Science: 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 Noyo Center For Marine Science?
- Noyo Center For Marine Science (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $669,856 to it, the largest being SPIRIT OF MAX FOUNDATION ($312,500). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Noyo Center For Marine Science have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $669,856 in grants to Noyo Center For Marine Science, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Noyo Center For Marine Science?
- SPIRIT OF MAX FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $312,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Noyo Center For Marine Science find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 23 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing