Washington · Nonprofit
PACIFIC MAMMAL RESEARCH
PACIFIC MAMMAL RESEARCH (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,225 to it, the largest being GARY E MILGARD FAMILY FOUNDATION - MARK ($80,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $81k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $152k
- Net assets
- $54k
What Pacific Mammal Research does
Mission
We are a scientific research organization whose primary exempt purpose is to collect, analyze and share data on wild harbor porpoise and harbor seal populations to improve their conservation. Our mission is to understand and protect harbor porpoises and harbor seals of the Salish Sea through innovative scientific research, engaging educational outreach, and hands-on learning opportunities. Our vision is to provide information that is crucial to creating biologically meaningful conservation measures for marine mammals of the Salish Sea, and build a community that is engaged in protecting the marine world they depend on. We have 3 main programs: 1. land based marine mammal research, 2. community science and internships, 3. boat based marine mammal research and eDNA studies.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
1. Land based marine mammal research. The primary goal of Pacific Mammal Research is to conduct long-term monitoring of harbor porpoise and harbor seal populations through photo-identification and behavioral studies. The core of our work is collecting land-based data in the field and all of our outputs come from this data. In 2025 our 3 part-time staff conducted over 280 hours in the field and over 2,600 hours in the office analyzing data, writing papers, and giving presentations, along with administrative and program development work that is needed to run the organization. We published 1 peer reviewed scientific paper and submitted a chapter for publication. We gave many presentations and interviews to the media on our work. We also presented at 1 workshop (Ways of Whales) and 3 government working group meetings (PSEMP Marine Mammal Working Group). We collaborated and strengthened relations with 3 regional nonprofits (The Salish Sea School, Bay Cetology and Finwave.io) and developed 4 data procedures that enhanced our data collection and analyses.
$43,571 spentof which $59,000 as grants84% of program spending2. Community science and internships. Through our field work and data analyses, we provide opportunities for involvement of our local community, and in particular provide internships to young scientists. We engaged with 150 community members, including volunteers helping us with field/office work, community scientists who conduct their own observations, and interns who help conduct field work and complete a data analysis project. This includes 600 field work hours for volunteers, interns and community scientists, and more than 1,400 hours of project work completed by interns. We also provide educational outreach through podcasts, YouTube channel videos, social media, festivals and educational presentations. We tabled at 6 festivals and gave 21 public talks (reaching more than 2200 people). Our social media reaches almost 5,000 people. This effort builds local capacity and supports scientific literacy in the community.
$6,918 spentof which $59,000 as grants13% of program spending3. Boat based marine mammal research and eDNA studies. In addition to our land-based fieldwork, we have added a boat-based component. This allows us to collect photos and behavioral data from other locations, expanding the information we can collect about harbor porpoise and harbor seal movements, site fidelity and behavior. We are also collecting eDNA from water samples to look at harbor porpoise genetic population structure. We partnered with The Salish Sea school on eDNA trips, using their boat, which reduced our costs. We also collected and started the initial processing of another 17 eDNA samples.
$1,497 spentof which $59,000 as grants3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $51,986.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2025, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2025, 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 2025 to 2026, from $25k to $54k (+118%).
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.
100% of PACIFIC MAMMAL RESEARCH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (89% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $40k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 PACIFIC MAMMAL RESEARCH’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
PACIFIC MAMMAL RESEARCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
66% of PACIFIC MAMMAL RESEARCH's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
PACIFIC MAMMAL RESEARCH has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14 science & tech nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 PACIFIC MAMMAL RESEARCH: 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 PACIFIC MAMMAL RESEARCH?
- PACIFIC MAMMAL RESEARCH (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,225 to it, the largest being GARY E MILGARD FAMILY FOUNDATION - MARK ($80,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PACIFIC MAMMAL RESEARCH have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $152,225 in grants to PACIFIC MAMMAL RESEARCH, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PACIFIC MAMMAL RESEARCH?
- GARY E MILGARD FAMILY FOUNDATION - MARK is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PACIFIC MAMMAL RESEARCH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2025–2026), and the filings of 6 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