As of May 15, 2018 the IRS revoked the tax exempt status for the organization with EIN 52-1692642 named Golf of Mexico Foundation Inc in Corpus Christi with the revocation being posted on August 13, 2018.
These include a Habitat and Conservation Team, teacher workshops on the wetlands, GMF science and Spanish clubs for high school students, and a Gulf of Mexico Summit conducted in conjunction with Mexican organizations.
After the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico starting in April 2010, Quenton Dokken, the organization's director was interviewed by The New York Times about the severity of the then ongoing oil spill.
"[6] Statement by Dr. Quenton Dokken: The Gulf of Mexico Foundation, as has countless non-profits around the world, has benefited from a working relationship with the oil/gas industry.
Dokken's comments, i.e. "the sky is not falling" was made in response to the media's sensational headlines about the spill being the doom of the Gulf of Mexico as a living resource.
The "controversy" was created by private interest expecting to benefit financially from the spill, and many did, and media trying to capture readership with sensational headlines, the original click bait.