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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 FY2023
2
States reached
$10k
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, FY2017 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$395k
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $19,395, the rows itemized in this filing. The $46,815 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $27,420 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$983k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JACKSONVILLE HISTORIC NAVAL SHIP ASSOC$10,000
SAGINAW VALLEY NAVAL SHIP MUSEUM$9,395
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FRIENDS OF THE USS CASSIN YOUNG: $7k → 8%USS MASSACHUSETTS MEMORIAL COMMITTEE: $11k → 11%BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY NAVAL & SERVICEMEN'S PARK: $10k → 13%CAVALLA HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%USS YORKTOWN FOUNDATION (USS LAFFEY): $11k → 12%JACKSONVILLE HISTORIC NAVAL SHIP ASSOC: $10k → 6%SAGINAW VALLEY NAVAL SHIP MUSEUM: $11k → 14%BREMETON HISTORIC SHIPS ASSOCIATION: $11k → 10%LOUSIANA NAVAL WAR MEMORIAL (USS KIDD): $11k → 19%HISTORICAL NAVAL SHIPS ASSOCIATION: $5k → 6%USS MASSACHUSETTS MEMORIAL COMMITTEE: $11k → 11%BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY NAVAL & SERVICEMEN'S PARK: $10k → 13%USS YORKTOWN FOUNDATION (USS LAFFEY): $10k → 12%SAGINAW VALLEY NAVAL SHIP MUSEUM: $10k → 14%BREMERTON SHIPS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%LOUSIANA NAVAL WAR MEMORIAL (USS KIDD): $10k → 19%HISTORICAL NAVAL SHIPS ASSOCIATION: $5k → 6%USS MASSACHUSETTS MEMORIAL COMMITTEE: $10k → 11%BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY NAVAL & SERVICEMEN'S PARK: $10k → 13%USS YORKTOWN FOUNDATION (USS LAFFEY): $8k → 12%SAGINAW VALLEY NAVAL SHIP MUSEUM: $10k → 14%BREMETON HISTORIC SHIPS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%LOUSIANA NAVAL WAR MEMORIAL (USS KIDD): $10k → 19%USS MASSACHUSETTS MEMORIAL COMMITTEE: $10k → 11%BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY NAVAL & SERVICEMEN'S PARK: $10k → 13%SAGINAW VALLEY NAVAL SHIP MUSEUM: $10k → 14%BREMERTON HISTORIC SHIPS ASSOCIATION (USS TURNER JOY): $10k → 10%USS KIDD COMMISSION: $10k → 19%USS MASSACHUSETTS MEMORIAL COMMITTEE: $10k → 11%SAGINAW VALLEY NAVAL SHIP MUSEUM: $10k → 14%LOUSIANA NAVAL WAR MEMORIAL (USS KIDD): $10k → 19%USS MASSACHUSETTS MEMORIAL COMMITTEE: $8k → 11%SAGINAW VALLEY NAVAL SHIP MUSEUM: $9k → 14%LOUSIANA NAVAL WAR MEMORIAL (USS KIDD): $10k → 19%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
MA
MD
SC
LA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$357k · 8 repeat orgs$37k 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
3

Total granted

$357k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+43%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • LN
    LOUISIANA NAVAL WAR MEMORIAL COMMISSION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $61k · revenue +799%
  • SV
    SAGINAW VALLEY NAVAL SHIP MUSEUM
    6× · 2017–2023 · $61k · revenue +41%
  • UM
    USS MASSACHUSETTS MEMORIAL COMMITTEE INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • PP
    PATRIOTS POINT NAVAL AND MARITIME MUSEUM FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +32% · 28% of their budget
  • CH
    CAVALLA HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +43%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE USS CASSIN YOUNG DD793 INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
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
Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum Inc
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2
National Museum of Military Vehicles
Arts & Culture
3
Maritime Industry Museum At Fort Schulyer

To operate and maintain suny maritime museum

Arts & Culture
4
Portsmouth Submarine & Maritime Association

To educate the public about the maritime history of the piscataqua river basin and the significance of the portsmouth naval shipyard and the u.s. navy's submarine service. its most important activity is the display of a submarine, former…

Arts & Culture
5
New Jersey Museum of Boating

Preserve and display New Jersey's rich boating history.

Arts & Culture
6
Home Port Alliance for the Uss New Jersey Inc

To restore, preserve & maintain the uss new jersey and to educate the public of the historical achievements of the uss new jersey.

Arts & Culture
7
Uss Silversides Submarine Museum

To honor through education and historic preservation the people who have served and are servicing the naval and maritime traditions of our nation.

Arts & Culture
8
Camden Shipyard Maritime Museum

To educate the world about camden's rich maritime heritage and significant contributions to global shipbuilding and seafaring exploration.

Arts & Culture
9
United States Lightship Museum Inc

To save, restore, and preserve nantucket ligthtship/lv-112 as a museum and floating learning center open to the general public. nantucket ligthtship/lv-112 is a national historic landmark and national treasure that is berthed in boston…

Arts & Culture
10
Uss Orleck Naval Museum Inc

Uss orleck naval museum, inc. is a decommisioned united states navy battleship that has been brought to lake charles, la to serve as a "hands-on" naval museum. the ship also serves as a banquet and special events venue.

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11
American Airpower Museum Co Cockpit Cpt Usa Llc
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12
The Yanks Air Museum
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uss Massachusetts Memorial Committee Inc; the most unlike its peers is Historic Naval Ships Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAGINAW VALLEY NAVAL SHIP MUSEUM: $60,570 · Arts & CultureSAGINAW VALLEY NAVAL SHIP MUSEUMUSS MASSACHUSETTS MEMORIAL COMMITTEE INC: $59,532 · Arts & CultureUSS MASSACHUSETTS MEMORIAL COMMITTEE INCBUFFALO NAVAL PARK COMMITTEE INC: $41,195 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO NAVAL PARK COMMITTEE INCDESTROYER-ESCORT HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $40,000 · Arts & CultureDESTROYER-ESCORT HISTORICAL MUSEUMUSS YORKTOWN FOUNDATION: $28,405 · Arts & CultureUSS YORKTOWN FOUNDATIONPATRIOTS POINT NAVAL AND MARITIME MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $10,265 · Arts & CultureCAVALLA HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureJACKSONVILLE HISTORIC NAVAL SHIP ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLOUISIANA NAVAL WAR MEMORIAL COMMISSION: $61,465 · OtherLOUISIANA NAVAL WAR MEMORIAL COMMISSIO…BREMERTON HISTORICAL SHIPS ASSOCIATION: $41,215 · OtherBREMERTON HISTORICAL SHIPS ASSOCIATIONHISTORIC NAVAL SHIPS ASSOCIATION INC: $25,001 · OtherHISTORIC NAVAL SHIPS ASSOCIATION INCFRIENDS OF THE USS CASSIN YOUNG DD793 INCORPORATED: $7,000 · Other
Arts & Culture$259,967Other$134,681

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOUISIANA NAVAL WAR MEMORIAL COMMISSION: $61,465 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetSAGINAW VALLEY NAVAL SHIP MUSEUM: $60,570 over 6y, 11% of budgetUSS MASSACHUSETTS MEMORIAL COMMITTEE INC: $59,532 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetBREMERTON HISTORICAL SHIPS ASSOCIATION: $41,215 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetBUFFALO NAVAL PARK COMMITTEE INC: $41,195 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetDESTROYER-ESCORT HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $40,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetUSS YORKTOWN FOUNDATION: $28,405 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetHISTORIC NAVAL SHIPS ASSOCIATION INC: $25,001 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetPATRIOTS POINT NAVAL AND MARITIME MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $10,265 over 1y, 28% of budgetCAVALLA HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJACKSONVILLE HISTORIC NAVAL SHIP ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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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 Tin Can Sailors Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tin Can Sailors Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    9report 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 Tin Can Sailors Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Tin Can Sailors 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.

    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 12 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 (FY2025) is on record and reports $38k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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