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NORTH AMERICAN MARITIME MINISTRY
Namma's mission is to support and encourage christian organizations in maritime ministry by building an association that provides professional development, fellowship, and advocacy.
$67k
Granted FY2024
8
Grants
6
Communities
$9k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of NORTH AMERICAN MARITIME MINISTRY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
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
2019
issuesinternshipport
2022
seafarers intern
2023
canaveralemotionalmeet physicalinternshipportspiritual
2024
materialsaccessemotionalmeet physicalinternational seafarerscanaveralinternship
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$8,250
Median grant
6
States reached
$762k
Total assets
Largest grants
- ARCHOR HOUSE INC$8,750
- SEAFARERS' HOUSE INC$8,250
- INTL SEAFARERS' CENTER PASCAGOULA$8,250
- GLOBAL MARITIME MINISTRIES INC$8,250
- CANAVERAL PORT MINISTRY$8,250
- SEATTLE SEAFARERS CENTER$8,250
- SEAFARER'S FRIEND$8,250
- PORT ARTHUR INTL SEAFARERS' CENTER$8,250
02The need
04
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:
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$301k · 13 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
13
6
Total granted
$301k
$36k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+17%
+102%
Still filing today
69%
33%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
ReligionHuman ServicesEmploymentOther
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
- SSSEATTLE SEAFARERS CENTER6× · 2018–2024 · $60k · revenue +44%
- CPCANAVERAL PORT MINISTRY3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +98%
- MBMARITIME BETHEL AT SAVANNAH2× · 2018–2019 · $17k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- UMUNITED MINISTRY TO THE PORT OF GALVgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +102%
- IMINTERNATIONAL MARITIME CENTERone grant, 2019 · $8k
- SCSEAMENS CHURCH INSTITUTE NY & NJone grant, 2018 · $8k
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
Seamen's Church Institute of Newport
To protect, preserve and enhance the maritime culture of newport and narragansett bay by providing education, hospitality and a safe haven for those who work, live and play on or by the sea
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2
Charleston Port & Seafarers Society
The Charleston Port and Seafarers' Society is a Christian organization that exists for the purpose of welcoming and serving the needs of those men and women who make their livelihood in the port or at sea, without regard for nationality,…
Religion
3
Alaska Christian Ministry to Seafarers
service seafarers on cruise ships and cargo ships. Helps personal counseling, a seamen center with home away from home atmosphere, with phone and internet for calling home. Basketball court and other facilities
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4
Houston International Seafarers
To provide for religious outreach and low cost recreational and educational facilities for seamen in the houston ship channel, port of houston region. seven full time chaplains visit ships over 200 miles of dock. churches and other…
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5
Grays Harbor Historical Seaport
The organization owns one tall ship named the Lady Washington. The ship offers sails in Washington, Oregon, and California, providing people the opportunity to experience sailing on an 18th century ship.
Arts & Culture
6
International Seafarers Center Inc
The international seafarers' center (isc) mission is to provide seafarers with a safe harbor that they can call home. the isc provides services that meet the spiritual, emotional, physical and material needs of the seafarers who visit the…
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7
Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum Inc
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8
The Mariners' Museum
The mariners' museum and park connects people to the world's waters, because through the waters - through our shared maritime heritage - we are connected to one another.
Arts & Culture
9
Hawaii Maritime Center
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10
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum
To be the recognized flagship institution for information on the Santa Barbara Channel by showcasing our rich maritime history, presenting inspirational programs, and promoting insightful disussions about the future of our coastal…
Arts & Culture
11
Mercy Ships International
Operates hospital ships staffed by volunteer medical and non-medical crew to bring free surgeries and medical training to developing countries.
International
12
Mel Fisher Maritime
The maintenance of permanent exhibits of artifacts relating to the spanish new world history and archaeology for display to the general public. the development, presentation and distribution of educational program materials and…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baltimore International Seafarers Center and the most unlike its peers is Port Arthur International Seamen's. 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
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Religion$151,900Other$145,600Human Services$44,000Employment$12,250
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 SEATTLE SEAFARERS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARCHOR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CANAVERAL PORT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds MARITIME BETHEL AT SAVANNAH ↗
- Who funds SEAFARERS' HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SEAFARER'S FRIEND SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE INTL SEAFARERS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI SEAMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds PORT AUTHUR INTL SEAMENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRY TO THE PORT OF GALV ↗
- Who funds TAMPA PORT MINISTRIES INC237408457 ↗
- Who funds SEAFARERS CENTER OF BEAUMONT ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Orange County Community FoundationCA22.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation NORTH AMERICAN MARITIME MINISTRY 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
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
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: SEATTLE SEAFARERS CENTER.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 400000490 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 SEATTLE SEAFARERS CENTER, 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
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% 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 North American Maritime Ministry?
Find your warmest path to North American Maritime Ministry 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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