Maryland · Nonprofit
OYSTER RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP INC
OYSTER RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP INC (Maryland) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,986,049 to it, the largest being PHILIP E AND CAROLE R RATCLIFFE FOUNDATION INC ($1,850,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.8M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Oyster Recovery Partnership Inc does
Mission
Plan, promote implement science-based sustainable shellfish restoration, aquaculture, and wild fishery activities to protect our environment, support our economy preserve our culture heritage
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Oyster recovery and habitat creation in maryland oyster recovery partnership undertakes a synchronized oyster recovery effort. Leveraging the resources and capabilities from all the partners and using the recommendations of the 2008 oyster advisory commission report and the chesapeake bay programs oyster management plan, this project begins to implement the bay wide strategy to restore oysters as identified in the presidents eo 13508 strategy and to implement the md governors oyster restoration plan. Major activities will include 1 continued multi-year restoration process of targeted large scale restoration and enforcement, 2 conducting restoration in targeted tributaries using spat on shell, natural set, and alternative substrate as appropriate, continued on schedule o
$7,406,665 spent$328,693 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,406,665.
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.
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 $1.9M to $2.7M (+44%).
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 78% · 2018 78% · 2019 88% · 2020 85% · 2021 84% · 2022 90% · 2023 92% · 2024 90% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
H Ward Slacum
Executive director
Board chair
Tighe Merkert
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 10 funders, grant income fell $1.0M → $177k.
6 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 OYSTER RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP 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
OYSTER RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 OYSTER RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 57% · 2019 73% · 2020 88% · 2021 55% · 2022 74% · 2023 46% — 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
59% of OYSTER RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
62% of OYSTER RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $265k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Government funding OYSTER RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.6M on record — $1.5M federal, $1.1M state.
- Department of Commerce$895k
- Department of Defense$489k
- Department of Agriculture$125k
- Grant$1.1M
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 OYSTER RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OYSTER RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP 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 OYSTER RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP INC?
- OYSTER RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP INC (Maryland) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,986,049 to it, the largest being PHILIP E AND CAROLE R RATCLIFFE FOUNDATION INC ($1,850,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OYSTER RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $3,986,049 in grants to OYSTER RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OYSTER RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP INC?
- PHILIP E AND CAROLE R RATCLIFFE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,850,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OYSTER RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 26 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