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North American Maritime Ministry Association Inc
The north american maritime ministry association (namma), a christian association, provides fellowship, encouragement,advocacy,education, spiritual and professional development for those in maritime ministry.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARCHOR HOUSE INC | $8,750 |
| CANAVERAL PORT MINISTRY | $8,250 |
| SEAFARERS' HOUSE INC | $8,250 |
| SEATTLE SEAFARERS CENTER | $8,250 |
| PORT ARTHUR INTL SEAFARERS' CENTER | $8,250 |
| INTL SEAFARERS' CENTER PASCAGOULA | $8,250 |
| GLOBAL MARITIME MINISTRIES INC | $8,250 |
| SEAFARER'S FRIEND | $8,250 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- MTMission to Seafarers6× · 2018–2024 · $60k · revenue +44%
- CPCANAVERAL PORT MINISTRY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +104%
- MBMARITIME BETHEL OF SAVANNAH INC2× · 2018–2019 · $17k · revenue +131%
Funded once
- UMUnited Ministry to the Port of Galvestongraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +102%
- SCSEAMENS CHURCH INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2018 · $8k
- IMINTERNATIONAL MARITIME CENTERone grant, 2019 · $8k
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.
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,…
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
Preaching the gospel of jesus christ
Chaplain service to international seafarers in US ports, mainly at the Port of Everett, Everett, Washington.
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…
To provide for religious outreach and low cost recreational and educational facilities for seamen sailing through the port of houston and houston ship channel.
The mission of the seamen's center of wilmington, inc., is to meet the needs of the seafarers who visit the ports in the state of delaware. the goal is to make their time in port a rewarding one by providing personal, practical and…
Minister to seamen
Provide pastoral care and evangelizing in the navigable waters; extended benefits of pastoral care to the maritime workforce and their families.
We serve the local church by facilitating adventure and discipleship through use of sailboats on the waterways, rivers and seas. We serve the cruising community in practical and tangible ways, being "salt and light". We share the Gospel…
The seafarers center is an ecumenical ministry of hospitality for seafarers visiting the twin ports of duluth, minnesota and superior, wisconsin.
The mission of the seamen's service center is to minister to the spiritual and temporal needs of the nearly 7,000 seamen who arrive at the port of wilmington on ships from every corner of the world. this is accomplished by the dedicated…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seafarers' House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Seafarers Center of Beaumont. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 Mission to Seafarers ↗
- Who funds ANCHOR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CANAVERAL PORT MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds MARITIME BETHEL OF SAVANNAH INC ↗
- Who funds SEAFARERS' HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SEAMAN'S FRIEND SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE INTERNATIONAL SEAFARERS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI INTERNATIONAL SEAFARERS' CENTER ↗
- Who funds Port Arthur International Seamen's Center Inc ↗
- Who funds United Ministry to the Port of Galveston ↗
- Who funds Tampa Port Ministries Inc ↗
- 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.
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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 organization North American Maritime Ministry Association 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.
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