Marine Fossil Research Group

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
934418214
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Carolina Beach, NC, USA
Rating confidence
Limited

Reported finances

Revenue
$199,169
Assets
$199,169

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

People named in this filing

  • Eric Proulx (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our primary mission is to source and supply marine fossils for scientific investigation. By focusing on the marine environment we contribute unique specimens that aid researchers in studying geological history evolution and environmental changes. Through our efforts we support the advancement of scientific knowledge and understanding of our planets past. Fossil shark teeth that are not of significant scientific value are sold to provide funding.

What it reported doing in 2025

During the tax year we donated fossils that were utilized in a research paper focusing on Tetraodontiformes a diverse order of ray-finned fish. These fossils played a critical role in enhancing our understanding of the evolutionary history and morphology of Tetraodontiformes contributing valuable data to the scientific community. The research paper made possible by these donations sheds light on the unique characteristics and adaptations of this group of fish providing important insights into their biology and ecological roles in marine ecosystems.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: NotEnoughData
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 3 of 3 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.