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AMERICAN WATERWAYS OPERATORS INC
National trade association of the tugboat, towboat and barge industry.
$181k
Granted FY2024
6
Grants
5
Communities
$104k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Community Improvement$520kPublic Benefit$125kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kCivil Rights$30kOther$113k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
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2023
legislativeissuesfederalaffecting maritimedomesticcriticalamerica's
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $104k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
- AMERICAN MARITIME PARTNERSHIP$104,000
- FLORIDA MARITIME PARTNERSHIP$20,000
- COALITION TO PROTECT THE MISSOURI RIVER$15,000
- CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS INSTITUTE$15,000
- SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE$9,586
- PACIFIC MERCHANT SHIPPING ASOCIATION$5,843
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 85% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$813k · 7 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
7
1
Total granted
$813k
$15k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+42%
+78%
Still filing today
86%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Public BenefitCommunity ImprovementPublic Safety & DisasterCivil RightsOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CGCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2022 · $110k · revenue +42%
- CTCOALITION TO PROTECT THE MISSOURI RIVER8× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +71%
- FMFLORIDA MARITIME PARTNERSHIP3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- NFNCSL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +78%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
1
American Assn of Port Authorities Inc
Aapa is a trade association that represents the interests of the public port industry in the u.s., canada, latin america, and the caribbean region.
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2
American Bureau of Shipping
To promote the safety of life and property and to preserve the natural environment.
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3
Marine Corps Association
To support the marine corps by disseminating knowledge of military art & science among marines.
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4
Florida Petroleum Marketers
The mission of the florida petroleum marketers association is to protect the industry and advocate on its behalf. we strive to promote a growth oriented business community in the state of florida and work to ensure that every one of our…
Community Improvement
5
National Association of Boards of
Nabp assists member boards of pharmacy for the purpose of protecting the public health.
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6
National Maritime Safety Association Inc
To represent the members in safety and health matters under the various statutes including osha.
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7
Federation of State Medical Boards of
Leader in medical regulation, serving as an innovative catalyst for effective policy & standards.
Health
8
Virginia Maritime Association
Promote, protect, and encourage the interests of the commercial shipping in the ports of Virginia.
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9
Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons'
The operative plasterers' & cement masons' intl association shall serve the interest of all its members. the goals of the association are to protect its members from unjust and injurious competition, to enhance and to protect the economic…
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10
American Petroleum Institute
See form 990, part iii, line 1 for complete mission statement
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11
Association of Military Banks
The association of military banks of america (amba) is a not-for-profit trade association that represents financial institutions specializing in providing worldwide banking services for military personnel, veterans, and their families.…
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12
Independent Petroleum Association
Ipaa is a national trade association, headquartered in washington, d.c., that represents thousands of independent oil and natural gas producers and service companies across the united states. it serves as an informed voice for the…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coast Guard Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Congressional Black Caucus Political Edu. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Community Improvement$520,000Public Benefit$125,100Other$112,580Public Safety & Disaster$40,000Civil Rights$29,875
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation AMERICAN WATERWAYS OPERATORS INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FLORIDA MARITIME PARTNERSHIP.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +67% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 352656391 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on FLORIDA MARITIME PARTNERSHIP, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 16% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to American Waterways Operators Inc?
Find your warmest path to American Waterways Operators Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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