Gov. Ned Lamont’s proposed $43 billion, two-year state budget calls for eliminating funding for Discovering Amistad, the nonprofit organization that acquired the troubled schooner in 2014.

The organization received $211,085 in fiscal 2019 but the proposed budget shows no money for it in fiscal 2019-21.

While the Amistad funding is being eliminated, Lamont’s budget was good news for Mystic Aquarium, which is set to receive an increase in funding from the current $257,918 to $322,397 in each of the next three fiscal years.

Len Miller, the chairman of Discovering Amistad, could not be reached for comment over the weekend about the impact of the cut on his organization.

Miller has said in the past that state funding is critical for his organization as it continues to seek private funding from foundations, businesses and individuals with the goal of eventually weaning itself off state money.

He has also said that while his organization can operate on about $350,000 a year, a total of about $700,000 optimally is needed.

Its predecessor, Amistad America, formed in 1998, lost its nonprofit status in 2012 for failing to file three years of tax returns. Nevertheless, the state continued to make an annual $360,000 payment to the organization, which fell deeper and deeper into debt, until finally freezing funding for the 2014-15 fiscal year as controversy over the organization’s lack of fiscal accountability intensified.

Following stories by The Day about how Amistad America had spent $9 million in state funding, and calls for an investigation by former state Rep. Diana Urban of North Stonington, the state conducted an audit, seized the ship in the summer of 2014 and sold it to Discovering Amistad for $315,000. The state then provided $957,000 to Discovering Amistad so it could purchase and repair the ship.

Discovering Amistad has since revamped the ship’s curriculum for students across the state and the ship spends most of its time in state waters. It is spending the winter at Mystic Seaport.