Maine · Nonprofit
THE BLUEFIN COLLABORATIVE
THE BLUEFIN COLLABORATIVE (Maine) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $602,775 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($391,475). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $186k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $603k
- Net assets
- $116k
What The Bluefin Collaborative does
Mission
The Bluefin Collaborative (tbc) will raise and distribute funding towards critical research to gain a holistic understanding of atlantic bluefin tuna movements, abundance spawning behavior, and general biology using reality-based and on-the-water (or in-the-air) science. The data gathered through this work educate, inform, and improve the current assessment and management processes for this important species. Tbc will be a collaborative effort between scientists, fishermen, pilots, and other experts from the u.s, canada, and elsewhere. Tbc will employ currently available tools - such as tagging - but also strive to create new ones. Tbc will also work to ensure that any important data that currently exists is given the light of day. While tbc's ultimate long-term goal is to provide fisheries managers with the ability to directly assess bluefin, there are many critical steps needed to get there each of which are important.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Education/research: facilitation and support of research and education regarding the atlantic bluefin tuna.
$131,276 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $131,276.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $74k to $116k (+57%).
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 THE BLUEFIN COLLABORATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Christopher G Weiner
Executive director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $20k → $96k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 THE BLUEFIN COLLABORATIVE’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
THE BLUEFIN COLLABORATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 THE BLUEFIN COLLABORATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 58% — 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.
Where its funders are
82% of THE BLUEFIN COLLABORATIVE'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. Of the $107k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $496k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
THE BLUEFIN COLLABORATIVE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE BLUEFIN COLLABORATIVE
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BLUEFIN COLLABORATIVE: 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 THE BLUEFIN COLLABORATIVE?
- THE BLUEFIN COLLABORATIVE (Maine) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $602,775 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($391,475). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE BLUEFIN COLLABORATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $602,775 in grants to THE BLUEFIN COLLABORATIVE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BLUEFIN COLLABORATIVE?
- ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $391,475 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BLUEFIN COLLABORATIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), 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