The NABSF seeks to focus on outreach activities to a broad community of potential recipients with educational interest in aquatic, environmental and archaeological sciences. While the NABSF's inception stems from the NABS organization and its 2200 members located throughout the continental United States and Caribbean region, the duties of the officers of the two organizations by definition separate and apart from each other.

The NABSF gladly accepts members from the NABS Organization and others in as much as they are willing to support its goals and objectives of being a charitable and educationally focused organization. The NABSF will serve as a clearinghouse for identifying individuals and initiatives that can benefit from exposure from such programs through education and training. The identification and selection of such individuals and initiatives will be done regardless of race, creed, or color.