Bioboat Corporation

What it reported doing in 2025

Bioboat's mission is to build the next generation of environmental stewards through marine science education. It is estimated that only 30 % of schoolchildren living in New York city's five boroughs have ever visited the water's edge, much less experienced the delicate balance of life existing below the surface. Bioboat is dedicated to getting these future protectors of our water out on the water. Using a variety of chartered vessels, schoolchildren are given a meaningful opportunity to experience scientific research while navigating the hudson river, jamaica bay, pelham bay, and surrounding estuaries. Too many schools lack the resources and physical lab space to provide experiential science education to their students. However, with a team of dedicated educators and volunteers aboard a mobile classroom, docking near schools, the expenses of bus transportation, laboratory equipment, and technology are lessened. Educational trips are designed to give students the opportunity to collect and share data in collaboration with influential research organizations. Careers in the maritime industry are highlighted, allowing students to consider futures in engineering, building, and navigation. Excursions typically last 3 hours and introduce students to current research occurring in the ecosystem while giving them hands-on experience with scientific equipment. Students study: trophic levels and food webs, migration patterns upriver and downriver, the billion oyster project, life in a tidal zone, creatures that make their home in the eelgrass, the effect of man-made river structures on plant and animal life, microplastics in the water, the connection between sewers and rivers, the future of coastlines as sea levels rise, how climate change introduces invasive species and algae blooms, safe recreational use of the river and bay, and sustainable fishing.past successes include partnering with the world wildlife federation to provide excursions for local students in pelham bay and the kingsborough community college yesss! To provide young new yorkers the opportunity to explore their home seas aboard the rv cuny i vessel, discovering in their own city a hidden wilderness - estuaries and beaches that truly define ny as a water city

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 65.4%; rating input score 65
• Program expense ratio: 65.1%; rating input score 65

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -0.6%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.85; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 30.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 30.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 47.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings