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SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC

SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC (Alaska) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,021,448 to it, the largest being NORTHERN SOUTHEAST REGIONAL AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION INC ($1,739,431). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$4.7M
Revenue FY2024
22
Funders on record
$5.0M
Grants received
$7.6M
Net assets
12/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%

Against its field

SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,184 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve4.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,184 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($2.0M) Net assets 100 ($2.8M)2018 Revenue 89 ($1.9M) Expenses 90 ($1.8M) Net assets 104 ($2.9M)2019 Revenue 135 ($2.9M) Expenses 103 ($2.0M) Net assets 135 ($3.8M)2020 Revenue 124 ($2.6M) Expenses 76 ($1.5M) Net assets 176 ($5.0M)2021 Revenue 144 ($3.1M) Expenses 106 ($2.1M) Net assets 211 ($6.0M)2022 Revenue 180 ($3.8M) Expenses 166 ($3.3M) Net assets 229 ($6.5M)2023 Revenue 213 ($4.5M) Expenses 204 ($4.0M) Net assets 248 ($7.0M)2024 Revenue 220 ($4.7M) Expenses 210 ($4.1M) Net assets 269 ($7.6M)
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Revenue (220)Expenses (210)Net assets (269)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 43% · 2018 34% · 2019 31% · 2020 26% · 2021 10% · 2022 34% · 2023 53% · 2024 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

67% of SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,285 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$162k
17
$118k
18
$858k
19
$1.1M
20
$979k
21
$571k
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$513k
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$568k
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4.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $271k → $416k.

6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)3% 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 SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER 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

SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

44% 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 SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC.

35%
largest funder
69%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 67% · 2019 38% · 2020 45% · 2021 50% · 2022 44% · 2023 48%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

40% of SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

60% of SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC's grant income comes from Alaska funders.

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WA
NY
NV
CA
DC

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

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Alaska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $134k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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 22 funders put you well-backed 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 SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12.3M on record.

Federal$12.3M
grants $12.3Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Science Foundation$10.0M
  • Department of the Interior$1.1M
  • Department of Agriculture$845k
  • Department of Commerce$249k
  • Denali Commission$26k
  • National Endowment for the Arts$20k

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 SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC

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 Alaska

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

61% of spending goes to programs.

Program 61%Management 39%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

79%

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 SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER 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 SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC?
SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC (Alaska) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,021,448 to it, the largest being NORTHERN SOUTHEAST REGIONAL AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION INC ($1,739,431). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $5,021,448 in grants to SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC?
NORTHERN SOUTHEAST REGIONAL AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,739,431 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 22funders 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