Virginia · Nonprofit
VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN
VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN (Virginia) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,141,586 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($970,112). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Virginia Institute of Marine Science Fdn does
Mission
The vims foundation advises and assists the william & mary batten school of coastal & marine sciences and the virginia institute of marine science, promotes philanthropy to and stewards the philanthropic resources of the vims foundation, and its members act as allies and ambassadors to position vims as the preeminent leader in coastal and estuarine science and education for virginia and the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Support for the william & mary batten school of coastal & marine sciences and the virginia institute of marine science in pursuit of its mission of research, education and advisory services.
$1,168,409 spentof which $1,168,409 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,168,409.
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 2021 to 2022, from $21M to $19M (−10%).
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.
125% of VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $548k → $550k.
10 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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
VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
65% 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 VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 38% · 2019 61% · 2020 50% · 2021 26% · 2022 41% · 2023 25% — 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
48% of VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
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
53% of VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M 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.
Against its field
VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 14 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Center for Applied Marine Science & Technology (Camst) · disregarded
- Center for Applied Marine Science & Technology (Camst) · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN: 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 VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN?
- VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN (Virginia) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,141,586 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($970,112). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $4,141,586 in grants to VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $970,112 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 37 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