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United States Sailing Association Inc

Grow american sailing and achieve olympic excellence through education, competition and community.

$46k
Granted FY2020
6
Itemized grants FY2020
6
Organizations funded FY2020
50%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$30k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 6
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
2
Total assets, FY2020
$3.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 50% of the organizations United States Sailing Association Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
Recreation & SportsEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20206$30k50%
FY20196$40k83%
FY20184$25k50%
FY20175$69kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Recreation & Sports$137kYouth Development$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kCommunity Improvement$5kEducation$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Boating Center Inc$25,00017%
Associated Students of San Diego State University$25,00030%
The Downtown Sailing Center Inc$20,00013%
Columbia Sailing School$15,00021%
Coconut Grove Sailing Club Inc$14,21820%
Coral Reef Yacht Club$12,57120%
Orange County Council 039 Boy Scouts of America$10,00020%
Dana Point Aquatic Foundation$5,0001n/a
Orange Coast College Foundation$5,00010%
Pacific Coast Sailing Foundation$5,00014%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($27k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget United States Sailing Association Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Boating Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetAssociated Students of San Diego State University: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Downtown Sailing Center Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetColumbia Sailing School: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCoconut Grove Sailing Club Inc: $14,218 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCoral Reef Yacht Club: $12,571 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOrange County Council 039 Boy Scouts of America: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOrange Coast College Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Coast Sailing Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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About United States Sailing Association Inc

How much does United States Sailing Association Inc give?
United States Sailing Association Inc reported 6 itemized grants totaling $30,000, out of $46,151 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does United States Sailing Association Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (83%), Youth Development (6%), Public Safety & Disaster (4%).
Who are United States Sailing Association Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Community Boating Center Inc ($25k), Associated Students of San Diego State University ($25k), The Downtown Sailing Center Inc ($20k).
Does United States Sailing Association Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United States Sailing Association Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is United States Sailing Association Inc based?
United States Sailing Association Inc is based in RI.

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 15 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 2020, released 2020. 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 $43k 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 FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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