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TIN CAN SAILORS INC
Organizations primary exempt purpose is to restore or improve destroyers with museum status
$47k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants
2
Communities
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0167% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.
Arts & Culture$218kOther$109k
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
parkfreedomartifactsbuffalo navalmilitaryhistoryexhibits
2020
parkfreedomartifactsbuffalo navalmilitaryhistoryhistoric
2021
historicnation'svisitorseducationexhibitswarmilitary
2022
ship restoration
2023
operateuss
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$983k
Total assets
Largest grants
- JACKSONVILLE HISTORIC NAVAL SHIP ASSOC$10,000
- SAGINAW VALLEY NAVAL SHIP MUSEUM$9,395
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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 8%. 93% of your 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.
92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$300k · 8 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else
8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
8
2
Total granted
$300k
$17k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+41%
+506%
Still filing today
100%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
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
- UKUSS KIDD COMMISSION6× · 2018–2023 · $51k · revenue +799%
- SVSAGINAW VALLEY NAVAL SHIP MUSEUM5× · 2018–2023 · $50k · revenue +41%
- DEDESTROYER ESCORT HISTORICAL MUSEUM(USS SLATER)5× · 2019–2023 · $40k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- CHCAVALLA HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +506%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE USS CASSIN YOUNGone grant, 2021 · $7k
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
Uss Midway Museum
To preserve the historic uss midway and the legacy of those who serve, inspire and educate future generations, and entertain museum guests.
Arts & Culture
2
Maritime Museum Association of San Diego
The Maritime Museum of San Diego restores, maintains and operates historic vessels.The museum has one of the world's finest collections of historic ships, including the world's oldest active ship Star of India.
Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Herreshoff Marine Museum
Interpret the history & accomplishments of the herreshoff manufacturing co. & america's cup.
Arts & Culture
5
Penobscot Marine Museum
Penobscot marine museum inspires curiosity and fosters understanding about life and work on the maine coast to encourage stewardship of our communities and the sea.
Arts & Culture
6
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
7
Uss Constitution Museum Inc
The uss constitution museum serves as the memory and educational voice of uss constitution.
Arts & Culture
8
National Sailing Hall of Fame & Museum
To recognize and encourage achievement of us sailers and the sport of sailing, and to inspire and cultivate scholastic and life skills learning through the museum and hall of fame.
Arts & Culture
9
Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum Inc
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10
The Antique Boat Museum
To collect, preserve, interpret and celebrate boats and related artifacts to advance public understanding of the importance of boating to the cultural history of north america and the st. lawrence river in particular.
Arts & Culture
11
Minnesota Marine Art Museum
The minnesota marine art museum engages visitors in meaningful visual art experiences through education and exhibitions that explore the ongoing and historic human relationship with water.
Arts & Culture
12
Sail Power and Steam Museum
Mission: To celebrate, honor, experience, and share the story of Maine's maritime heritage.Vision: Maine's maritime heritage helped shape our nation and it will continue to influence our future. 1. We collect, restore,and exhibit…
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uss Massachusetts Memorial and the most unlike its peers is Cavalla Historical Foundation. 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, 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)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Arts & Culture$217,997Other$108,666
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 USS KIDD COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW VALLEY NAVAL SHIP MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds USS MASSACHUSETTS MEMORIAL COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds DESTROYER ESCORT HISTORICAL MUSEUM(USS SLATER) ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY NAVAL & SERVICEMEN'S PARK ↗
- Who funds BREMETON HISTORIC SHIPS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds USS YORKTOWN FOUNDATION (USS LAFFEY) ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL NAVAL SHIPS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JACKSONVILLE HISTORIC NAVAL SHIP ASSOC ↗
- Who funds CAVALLA HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 organisation TIN CAN SAILORS 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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: SAGINAW VALLEY NAVAL SHIP MUSEUM.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 383337711 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 SAGINAW VALLEY NAVAL SHIP MUSEUM, 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
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 11% 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.
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Find your warmest path to Tin Can Sailors Inc 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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