Connecticut · Nonprofit
OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH & EXPLORATION FOUNDATION
OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH & EXPLORATION FOUNDATION (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000,000 to it, the largest being DALIO FAMILY FUND INC ($20,000,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH & EXPLORATION FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 149 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 149 science & tech nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
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 Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inclocal
- Rock the Ocean Foundationportfolio match
- Stamford Rotary Trust Fundlocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
82% of OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH & EXPLORATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10M.
From the IRS filings of OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH & EXPLORATION FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
100% of OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH & EXPLORATION FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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.
- The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education InclocalCT · funds 67 organizations near you
- Rock the Ocean Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stamford Rotary Trust FundlocalCT · funds 69 organizations near you
- Schmidt Ocean Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Marine Sanctuary Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hu Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bow Seat Creative Action for Conservationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Khp Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nesburn Family Foundation Co Anthony B Nesburn Mdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Social Good Labs Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ocean Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wamuemra Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH & EXPLORATION FOUNDATION
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 11 related entities
- Oceanx Media LLC · disregarded
- Greenwich Maritime Services LLC · disregarded
- Marine 1 LLC · disregarded
- China Care Foundation · exempt
- Dalio Family Fund Inc (& Subsidiaries or Controlled Entities) · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH & EXPLORATION FOUNDATION: 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 OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH & EXPLORATION FOUNDATION?
- OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH & EXPLORATION FOUNDATION (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000,000 to it, the largest being DALIO FAMILY FUND INC ($20,000,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH & EXPLORATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000,000 in grants to OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH & EXPLORATION FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH & EXPLORATION FOUNDATION?
- DALIO FAMILY FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH & EXPLORATION FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing