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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.

$181k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$104k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$520kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kPublic Benefit$95kEnvironment$63kReligion$38kArts & Culture$11k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $169,429, the rows itemized in this filing. The $180,656 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $11,227 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

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
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PACIFIC MERCHANT SHIPPING ASOCIATION: $6k → 10%SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE: $19k → 17%CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS INSTITUTE: $15k → 14%FLORIDA MARITIME PARTNERSHIP: $20k → 13%COALITION TO PROTECT THE MISSOURI RIVER: $15k → 14%COALITION TO PROTECT THE MISSOURI RIVER: $12k → 17%COAST GUARD FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE: $10k → 16%PACIFIC MERCHANT SHIPPING ASOCIATION: $6k → 10%CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS INSTITUTE: $15k → 14%FLORIDA MARITIME PARTNERSHIP: $20k → 13%COALITION TO PROTECT THE MISSOURI RIVER: $12k → 14%COAST GUARD FOUNDATION: $35k → 9%SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE: $10k → 16%AMERICAN MARITIME PARTNERSHIP: $104k → 14%COALITION TO PROTECT THE MISSOURI RIVER: $12k → 14%COAST GUARD FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%AMERICAN MARITIME PARTNERSHIP: $104k → 14%COALITION TO PROTECT THE MISSOURI RIVER: $12k → 14%AMERICAN MARITIME PARTNERSHIP: $104k → 14%AMERICAN MARITIME PARTNERSHIP: $104k → 14%AMERICAN MARITIME PARTNERSHIP: $104k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$813k · 7 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

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

+60%
+14%

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.

50%100%’17’18’19’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’23’24
Public BenefitCommunity ImprovementPublic Safety & DisasterCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AM
    AMERICAN MARITIME PARTNERSHIP INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $520k · revenue +43%
  • CG
    COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $110k · revenue +97%
  • CT
    COALITION TO PROTECT THE MISSOURI RIVER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • NF
    NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +14%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Propeller Club of the Us

To promote waterborne commerce and support the merchant marine and allied industries in all countries in which propeller club ports are located.

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2
Marine Retailers Association of the Americas

Trade association for marine retailers. the purpose of the organization is to render educational, developmental, legislative, regulatory and promotional services for the benefit of its members.

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3
Florida Petroleum Marketers Association Inc

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 everyone of our…

Community Improvement
4
American Assn of Port Authorities Inc

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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5
National Maritime Safety Association Inc

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to represent the members in safety and health matters under the various statutes including osha.(see schedule o)

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6
Marine Corps Association

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…

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7
Virginia Maritime Association

Promote, protect, and encourage the interests of the commercial shipping in the ports of Virginia.

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8
Coastal Alabama Partnership

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…

Public Safety & Disaster
9
American Bureau of Shipping

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…

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10
Marine Protected Area Collaborative Network

The mission of the mpa collaborative network is to empower communities to engage in marine protected area stewardship for a healty ocean.

Environment
11
United States Naval Institute

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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12
National Association of Waterfront Employers

The national association of waterfront employers provides legal and technical assistance, represents interests, promotes and supports the privately owned stevedores and marine terminal industry of the united states, its territories and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Maritime Partnership Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN MARITIME PARTNERSHIP INC: $520,000 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN MARITIME PARTNERSHIP INCCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $110,100 · Public BenefitCOAST GUARD FOUND…NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES: $15,000 · Public BenefitNCSL FOUNDATION F…COALITION TO PROTECT THE MISSOURI RIVER: $63,000 · OtherCOALITION TO PR…SEAMENS CHURCH INSTITUTE INC: $38,172 · OtherSEAMENS CHURCH …Pacific Merchant Shipping Association: $11,408 · OtherPacific Merchan…FLORIDA MARITIME PARTNERSHIP INC: $40,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDU CATION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $29,875 · Civil Rights
Community Improvement$520,000Public Benefit$125,100Other$112,580Public Safety & Disaster$40,000Civil Rights$29,875

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN MARITIME PARTNERSHIP INC: $520,000 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $110,100 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCOALITION TO PROTECT THE MISSOURI RIVER: $63,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetFLORIDA MARITIME PARTNERSHIP INC: $40,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDU CATION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $29,875 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPacific Merchant Shipping Association: $11,408 over 4y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Waterways Operators Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Waterways Operators Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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