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The Old Dominion Boat Club Foundation at a glance

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The Old Dominion Boat Club Foundation

The foundation is a public charity described in irc sections 509(a)(1) and 170(b)(1)(a)(vi).

$47k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$37kHealth$22kEnvironment$13kArts & Culture$12kYouth Development$5kEmployment$3kHuman Services$3kEducation$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$40k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$15,000
TALL SHIP PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION$10,000
BLOOD CANCER UNITED$10,000
POTOMAC CONSERVANCY$5,000
NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION$2,500
POTOMAC RIVERKEEPER NETWORK$2,500
CITY OF ALEXANDRIA GEORGE WASHINGTON BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION$1,000
ALEXANDRIA ACES (CAL RIPKEN LEAGUE)$1,000
MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS$250
02The need
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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:

Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%CAMPAGNA CENTER: $3k → 9%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 37% of The Old Dominion Boat Club Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 59% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 47%.

The Old Dominion Boat Club Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$69k · 6 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -12% since the first grant, against -20% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$69k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-12%
-20%

Still filing today

50%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2022–2024 · $35k
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $19k · revenue -16%
  • TP
    THE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue -12%

Funded once

  • AS
    Alexandria Seaport Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -8%
  • DS
    DC SAIL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • BS
    BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA SCOUT SHIP 818
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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 Potomac Foundation
International
2
Middle Patuxent Environmental Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Youth Sailing Virginia Inc

Youth sailing virginia's mission is to teach life skills to high school, middle school youth and their families in the commonwealth of virginia through safe, fun and competitive, recreational and educational community sailing programs with…

Recreation & Sports
4
The Fund for American Studies

The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…

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5
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
6
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation's (CBF) mission, simply stated, is to Save the Bay. See Schedule O for Continuation (page 48)

Environment
7
Eastport Yacht Club Foundation Inc

Education of maritime-ecology and boating to youths and young adults.

Recreation & Sports
8
The Association for the Preservation of the Potomac

To preserve and protect the Presidential yacht Potomac for use as a classroom and museum dedicated to imparting to present and future generations the continuing impact of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Era. All programming initiatives at…

Arts & Culture
9
Portulans Institute

To develop cross-community knowledge and dialogue on how people, technology and innovation contribute to sustainable and inclusive growth; to inform policy-makers, by producing independent, rigorous metrics and data-based research; to…

Arts & Culture
10
Anacostia Community Boathouse Association

Anacostia Community Boathouse Association (ACBA) is a volunteer-run organization that provides opportunities for non-motorized recreational water activities such as rowing and paddling through its member organizations, which include three…

Recreation & Sports
11
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
12
Us Naval Academy Foundation Inc

To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Potomac Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
2/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDC SAIL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $2,500 · OtherDC SAIL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA SCOUT SHIP 818: $2,500 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA SCOUT SHIP 818ALEXANDRIA ACES (CAL RIPKEN LEAGUE): $2,000 · OtherCITY OF ALEXANDRIA GEORGE WASHINGTON BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION: $2,000 · OtherBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $19,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · HealthNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FO…Tall Ship Providence Foundation: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTall Ship Prov…Alexandria Seaport Foundation: $2,500 · Arts & CultureAlexandria Sea…THE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE POTOMAC CO…Potomac Riverkeeper Network: $2,500 · EnvironmentPotomac Riverk…THE CAMPAGNA CENTER INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF ALEXANDRIA: $2,000 · EducationMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $650 · Philanthropy
Other$44,000Health$21,500Arts & Culture$12,500Environment$12,500Human Services$2,500Education$2,000Philanthropy$650

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTall Ship Providence Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAlexandria Seaport Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPAGNA CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPotomac Riverkeeper Network: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF ALEXANDRIA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $650 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Calvert and Sally Sim…The Peterson Family F…Act for AlexandriaAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Calvert and Sally Simmons FoundationVA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Calvert and Sally Simmons Foundation · The Peterson Family Foundation Inc · Act for Alexandria · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Old Dominion Boat Club Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Old Dominion Boat Club Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
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    How do I get to The Old Dominion Boat Club Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Old Dominion Boat Club Foundation 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.

    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 14 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $73k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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