· Public charity
American Waterways Operators Inc
The american waterways operators is the tugboat, towboat, and barge industry's advocate, resource and united voice for safe, sustainable and efficient transporation on america's waterways, oceans, and coasts.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $169,429 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $180,656 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,227 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $104k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN MARITIME PARTNERSHIP | $104,000 |
| FLORIDA MARITIME PARTNERSHIP | $20,000 |
| CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| COALITION TO PROTECT THE MISSOURI RIVER | $15,000 |
| SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE | $9,586 |
| PACIFIC MERCHANT SHIPPING ASOCIATION | $5,843 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AMAMERICAN MARITIME PARTNERSHIP INC8× · 2017–2024 · $520k · revenue +43%
- CGCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2022 · $110k · revenue +97%
- CTCOALITION TO PROTECT THE MISSOURI RIVER8× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- NFNCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURESone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +14%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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Aapa is a membership association dedicated to addressing the common interests and goals of ports with respect to operations, management, economics, and interaction with regulatory agencies in the united states, canada, the caribbean,…
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The mission of the marine corps association (mca) is to support the marine corps by disseminating knowledge of military art and science among marines, provide opportunities for professional development for marines, and to foster the spirit…
Promote, protect, and encourage the interests of the commercial shipping in the ports of Virginia.
To facilitate the advancement of education and science as it relates to identified vulnerabilities along coastal alabama associated with the environment, society and the economy and to the end of supporting creation, development and…
To serve the public interest as well as the needs of our members and clients by promoting the safety of life and property and preserving the natural environment through the development and verification of standards for design, construction…
The mission of the mpa collaborative network is to empower communities to engage in marine protected area stewardship for a healty ocean.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Maritime Partnership Inc and the most unlike its peers is Congressional Black Caucus Political Edu Cation and Leadership Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds AMERICAN MARITIME PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION TO PROTECT THE MISSOURI RIVER ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA MARITIME PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDU CATION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES ↗
- Who funds Pacific Merchant Shipping Association ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization 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.
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.