OBIS のスポンサーは、OBIS の開発のための資金を提供しています。
直接資金を提供している団体:
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- European Commission
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP)
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
間接的な資金提供も同様に重要です。これらには、ポータルや事務局へのサポート、OBIS 地域拠点やたの主要なデータ提供者へのサポート、委員会メンバーへの給料などが含まれます。
間接的資金を提供している団体:
- Rutgers (The State University of New Jersey, USA)
- The EU network of excellence ‘Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (MarBEF)’
- Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ, Flanders Marine Institute, Belgium)
- San Diego Supercomputer Center (USA)
- Centre of Marine Biodiversity (Canada)
- Bedford Institute of Oceanography (Canada)
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Marine Research (Australia)
- Duke University (USA)
- Natural History Museum (London, UK)
- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA, New Zealand)
- Museum Victoria (Australia)
- Institute of Oceanology (China)
- National Chemical Laboratory (India)
- National Institute of Oceanography (India)
- South African Data Centre for Oceanography
- National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII, USA)
- University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
- University of Concepcion (Chile)
- University of Kansas (USA)
- University of Kiel (Germany)
- University of Auckland (New Zealand)
