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OCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC

OCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,961,207 to it, the largest being THE GREAT ISLAND FOUNDATION ($3,000,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.9M
Funders on record
55
Grants received
$8.0M
Net assets
$3.8M
31/55 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What Ocean Research & Conservation Association Inc does

Mission

To study and protect marine ecosystems

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Organization is dedicated to the study and protection of marine ecosystems and the species they sustain through the development of innovative technologies and science based conservation action.

    $1,726,193 spent$2,923,338 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,726,193.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets -99 ($-187243)2018 Revenue 115 ($1.7M) Expenses 81 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($189k)2019 Revenue 90 ($1.3M) Expenses 92 ($1.5M) Net assets 11 ($22k)2020 Revenue 128 ($1.9M) Expenses 97 ($1.6M) Net assets 177 ($335k)2021 Revenue 148 ($2.2M) Expenses 105 ($1.7M) Net assets 383 ($725k)2022 Revenue 193 ($2.8M) Expenses 123 ($2.0M) Net assets 827 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 249 ($3.7M) Expenses 143 ($2.3M) Net assets 1541 ($2.9M)2024 Revenue 186 ($2.7M) Expenses 145 ($2.3M) Net assets 1741 ($3.3M)2025 Revenue 200 ($2.9M) Expenses 150 ($2.4M) Net assets 2014 ($3.8M)
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Revenue (200)Expenses (150)Net assets (2014)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.5M to $3.1M (+107%).

$714k
$704k
$652k
$1.3M
$1.5M
$3.1M
$3.5M
$4.2M
$4.7M
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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 75% · 2018 43% · 2019 54% · 2020 54% · 2021 49% · 2022 53% · 2023 46% · 2024 67% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of OCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,303 orgs

Surplus & reserves

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

−$149k
’17
$377k
’18
−$168k
’19
$313k
’20
$484k
’21
$840k
’22
$1.4M
’23
$379k
’24
$518k
’25
12
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.

Board chair

Wayne Mills

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1199910910912
Joined·+1+1+0+6+1+1+0+3
No longer listed·31052010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $465k → $721k.

14 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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

OCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

38%
largest funder
65%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 62% · 2019 56% · 2020 13% · 2021 38% · 2022 31% · 2023 41% — 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

52% of OCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

OCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 13 states in all.

MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DE
NC
GA
FL

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

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’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

OCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · above the median
Months of reserve11.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding OCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.

Federal$30k
grants $30kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Environmental Protection Agency$30k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 17%Fundraising 11%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds OCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC?
OCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,961,207 to it, the largest being THE GREAT ISLAND FOUNDATION ($3,000,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $7,961,207 in grants to OCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC?
THE GREAT ISLAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION 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.

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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 55 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