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PERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE

PERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE (Vermont) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,592,869 to it, the largest being THE BUILDERS INITIATIVE INC ($1,503,260). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$3.5M
Revenue FY2024
21
Funders on record
$3.6M
Grants received
$497k
Net assets
12/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($570k) Expenses 100 ($341k) Net assets 100 ($228k)2018 Revenue 90 ($512k) Expenses 116 ($395k) Net assets 151 ($345k)2019 Revenue 148 ($841k) Expenses 174 ($592k) Net assets 210 ($479k)2020 Revenue 165 ($937k) Expenses 257 ($876k) Net assets 236 ($540k)2021 Revenue 345 ($2.0M) Expenses 391 ($1.3M) Net assets 492 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 409 ($2.3M) Expenses 495 ($1.7M) Net assets 772 ($1.8M)2023 Revenue 482 ($2.7M) Expenses 811 ($2.8M) Net assets 185 ($423k)2024 Revenue 622 ($3.5M) Expenses 1026 ($3.5M) Net assets 217 ($497k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (622)Expenses (1026)Net assets (217)

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 1% · 2020 8% · 2021 6% · 2022 3% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$228k
17
$117k
18
$249k
19
$61k
20
$629k
21
$639k
22
$23k
23
$41k
24
3.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $5k → $965k.

7 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)12% 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 PERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE’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

PERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% 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

42%
largest funder
65%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 0% · 2020 100% · 2021 28% · 2022 65% · 2023 53%growing more concentrated.

“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

44% of PERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

PERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 5 states in all.

IL
NY
RI
DC
FL

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

20
21
22
23
Vermont out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $441k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Government funding PERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.

Federal$1.4M
grants $1.4Mcontracts $0
21
26
Top agencies
  • National Science Foundation$1.3M
  • Department of Agriculture$65k
  • Department of State$10k

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 PERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE

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 Vermont

Nationally

04Profile & 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 11%Fundraising 1%

Governance

6
board members
67%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Bahamas Undersea Research Foundatio · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE: 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 PERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE?
PERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE (Vermont) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,592,869 to it, the largest being THE BUILDERS INITIATIVE INC ($1,503,260). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $3,592,869 in grants to PERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE?
THE BUILDERS INITIATIVE INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,503,260 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 21funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing