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Block Island Maritime Funding Inc

Supports youth sailing programs through Atlantic Challenge Foundation and Piers Island Maritime Institute

$114k
Granted FY2023
7
Itemized grants FY2023
7
Organizations funded FY2023
86%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$83k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$9,500
Largest grant, FY2023
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
3
Total assets, FY2023
$4.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 86% of the organizations Block Island Maritime Funding Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsHealthEnvironmentScience & TechOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20237$83k86%
FY20227$119k29%
FY20215$268k20%
FY20207$114k29%
FY20199$122k22%
FY20189$235k22%
FY201713$183kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$510kArts & Culture$352kEnvironment$77kAnimals$51kRecreation & Sports$51kHealth$37kScience & Tech$25kReligion$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Block Island Maritime Funding Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIyrs School of Technology & Trades Inc: $290,512 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetMaine Maritime Museum: $192,729 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetHammond School: $96,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island Inc: $94,900 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetFoundation for Underway Experientia L Learning Inc: $62,676 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetPenobscot Marine Museum: $44,984 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetNew England Science & Sailing Foundation Inc: $35,600 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries: $33,080 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHelping Hands and Hooves Inc: $32,750 over 1y, 22% of budgetSouth Carolina Waterfowl Association: $27,800 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $27,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: $24,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPaul Cuffee School: $16,611 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Casco Bay: $15,071 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCuttyhunk Yacht Club Inc: $10,887 over 1y, 15% of budgetSpiritual Center of Southport Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetHistorical Society of Martin County Inc: $9,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRescue Adoption Inc: $9,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCoast Guard Foundation Inc: $7,280 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNalas New Life Rescue Inc: $7,075 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTreasure Coast Wildlife Hospital Inc: $7,075 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRippleffect Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSail Maine: $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetImmigrant Legal Advocacy Project: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAndroscoggin Land Trust Inc: $1,468 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCommunity Boating Inc: $680 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Maine Community Foundation IncME21.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Middlecott Foundation · Davis Conservation Foundation · Onion Foundation · Granite Point Foundation · Bonnell Cove Foundation · Albert B Glickman Family Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Block Island Maritime Funding Inc?

Find your warmest path to Block Island Maritime Funding Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Block Island Maritime Funding Inc

How much does Block Island Maritime Funding Inc give?
Block Island Maritime Funding Inc reported 7 itemized grants totaling $83,150, out of $114,005 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Block Island Maritime Funding Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (45%), Arts & Culture (31%), Environment (7%).
Who are Block Island Maritime Funding Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Iyrs School of Technology & Trades Inc ($291k), Maine Maritime Museum ($193k), Hammond School ($96k).
Does Block Island Maritime Funding Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Block Island Maritime Funding Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation, Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust.
Where is Block Island Maritime Funding Inc based?
Block Island Maritime Funding Inc is based in ME.

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 28 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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