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OCEAN INC

OCEAN INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,782 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES ($70,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$14M
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$204k
Net assets
$8.5M
7/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Ocean Inc does

Mission

Administration of federal head start program, weatherization programs, rental assistance programs and other assistance to low income families.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Head start includes the head start child development program, which is a comprehensive preschool program for children ages 3-5 years old from disadvantaged families. Eligibility is based on income guidelines from the federal government, as well as the head start centers program, which is a is a comprehensive preschool program for low-income 3-5 year olds that provides services in five major areas: education, health, social services, parent involvement, and special needs. Head start programs not only enhance the growth and development of children, they promote family self-sufficiency and develop community partnerships. O.c.e.a.n., inc. Currently operates head start programs at five locations throughout ocean county in brick, berkeley, barnegat, toms river, and manchester.

    $5,448,131 spent
    41% of program spending
  2. Weatherization programs include the liheap and usf (low income home energy assistance and universal service fund) - designed to address the needs of cost-burdened, low-income ocean county residents, unable to afford the added expense of repairing or replacing items in their home that if repaired or replaced, could help them reduce or eliminate high energy bills. Eligibility is based on income guidelines from the federal government. Program services include, energy audits, broken glass repair, weather-stripping and/or caulking of doors/windows, insulating attics and crawlspaces, replacement of doors and windows, skirting mobile homes, hot water heater jackets, furnace repair or replacement, hot water heater repair or replacement.

    $3,347,583 spentof which $166,989 as grants
    25% of program spending
  3. The community services block grant consists of many programs administered by ocean, inc. And its subrecipients and include but are not limited to, substance abuse counseling and treatment, providing affordable housing, food, and scholarships to low-income individuals, stem training in the woodbine school district, provide technological enhancements to low income individuals, providing summer day camps, providing on the job training, providing intensive case management, and providing a senior isolation transportation program.

    $1,603,134 spentof which $645,871 as grants
    12% of program spending
  4. Other programs include home energy assistance programs, affordable housing, first-time homebuyers, and more.

    $2,994,857 spentof which $191,000 as grants$1,274,021 earned by the program
    22% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,393,705.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($14M) Expenses 100 ($13M) Net assets 100 ($9.3M)2018 Revenue 93 ($13M) Expenses 95 ($13M) Net assets 102 ($9.5M)2019 Revenue 96 ($13M) Expenses 97 ($13M) Net assets 110 ($10M)2020 Revenue 88 ($12M) Expenses 108 ($14M) Net assets 87 ($8.1M)2021 Revenue 127 ($17M) Expenses 116 ($15M) Net assets 108 ($10M)2022 Revenue 106 ($14M) Expenses 108 ($14M) Net assets 109 ($10M)2023 Revenue 116 ($16M) Expenses 106 ($14M) Net assets 128 ($12M)2024 Revenue 110 ($15M) Expenses 112 ($15M) Net assets 131 ($12M)2025 Revenue 103 ($14M) Expenses 116 ($15M) Net assets 91 ($8.5M)
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Revenue (103)Expenses (116)Net assets (91)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $21M to $23M (+10%).

$21M
$21M
$23M
$22M
$23M
$22M
$23M
$24M
$23M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 91% · 2018 89% · 2019 87% · 2020 85% · 2021 89% · 2022 81% · 2023 86% · 2024 83% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$433k
’17
$140k
’18
$349k
’19
−$2.2M
’20
$1.9M
’21
$159k
’22
$1.8M
’23
$247k
’24
−$1.2M
’25
0.3
months of
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

Tamica Mickle

President/CEO

Board chair

Anita Woolery

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.

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Listed131110121213131413
Joined·+2+1+2+0+3+0+3+1
No longer listed·42002022
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $24k → $10k.

1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 OCEAN 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

OCEAN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

49% 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 OCEAN INC.

34%
largest funder
81%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 85% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 64% · 2022 44% · 2023 52% — 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

60% of OCEAN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

53% of OCEAN INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.

MN
NJ
CT
MO
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $183 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding OCEAN INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $61.5M on record.

Federal$61.5M
grants $61.5Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$61.0M
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$469k

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 OCEAN 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 New Jersey

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

NJ

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Macedoniaocean Housing LLC · disregarded
  • Mo Limited Partner LLC · disregarded
  • Macedoniaocean Senior Housing Urban Renewal Associates LP · partnership

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OCEAN 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds OCEAN INC?
OCEAN INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,782 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES ($70,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OCEAN INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $203,782 in grants to OCEAN INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OCEAN INC?
UNITED WAY OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OCEAN INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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