New Mexico · Nonprofit
SHIPS OF EXPLORATION & DISCOVERY RESRCH
SHIPS OF EXPLORATION & DISCOVERY RESRCH (New Mexico) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $34 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($34). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $143k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $34
- Net assets
- $158k
What Ships of Exploration & Discovery Resrch does
Mission
Exploring for & conserving historical ships
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Dpaa projects (multiple) - defense pow-mia accounting agency projects for the survey and evacuation of wwii aircraft losses to locate and recover remains of us service personnel.
$106,614 spent$122,274 earned by the program84% of program spendingBoem project - creation and maintenance of an arcgis project that can support a geo-referenced database of known, reported, and potential uch resources (e.g. Shipwrecks, airplanes, etc) on the outer continental shelf(ocs) of the commonwealth of the northern mariana island(cnmi), guam and american samoa.
$0 spent$21,101 earned by the program0% of program spendingNoaa oe saipan - national oceanic and atmospheric administration ocean exploration grant to inventory, identify, and document submerged wwii cultural resources in saipan.
$19,086 spent15% of program spendingBattlefield grant - national park service american battlefield protection program grant for world war ii related research in alaska.
$931 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $126,631.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $50k to $162k (+223%).
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: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2023 98% · 2024 100% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SHIPS OF EXPLORATION & DISCOVERY RESRCH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8 → $26.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SHIPS OF EXPLORATION & DISCOVERY RESRCH’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.
Where its funders are
100% of SHIPS OF EXPLORATION & DISCOVERY RESRCH's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SHIPS OF EXPLORATION & DISCOVERY RESRCH holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding SHIPS OF EXPLORATION & DISCOVERY RESRCH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $666k on record.
- Department of Commerce$488k
- Department of the Interior$178k
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 SHIPS OF EXPLORATION & DISCOVERY RESRCH
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 New Mexico
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHIPS OF EXPLORATION & DISCOVERY RESRCH: 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 SHIPS OF EXPLORATION & DISCOVERY RESRCH?
- SHIPS OF EXPLORATION & DISCOVERY RESRCH (New Mexico) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $34 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($34). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SHIPS OF EXPLORATION & DISCOVERY RESRCH have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $34 in grants to SHIPS OF EXPLORATION & DISCOVERY RESRCH, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHIPS OF EXPLORATION & DISCOVERY RESRCH?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $34 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHIPS OF EXPLORATION & DISCOVERY RESRCH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 1 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