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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
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2020.

Recreation & Sports$137kYouth Development$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kCommunity Improvement$5kEducation$5k
02FY2020 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $30,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $46,151 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,151 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.
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ORANGE COAST COLLEGE FOUNDATION$5,000
DANA POINT AQUATIC FOUNDATION$5,000
PACIFIC COAST SAILING FOUNDATION$5,000
NEWPORT SEA BASE$5,000
COLUMBIA SAILING SCHOOL$5,000
ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY$5,000
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 (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PACIFIC COAST SAILING FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%ORANGE COAST COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%MISSION BAY AQUATIC CENTER: $10k → 11%US SAILING CENTER LONG BEACH: $5k → 14%COCONUT GROVE SAILING CLUB: $9k → 15%COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER: $25k → 14%COLUMBIA SAILING SCHOOL: $10k → 14%DOWNTOWN SAILING CENTER: $20k → 19%NEWPORT SEA BASE: $5k → 10%ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%CORAL REEF YACHT CLUB: $7k → 15%COLUMBIA SAILING SCHOOL: $5k → 14%ORANGE COAST COLLEGE SAILING CENTER: $5k → 10%MISSION BAY AQUATIC CENTER: $10k → 11%COCONUT GROVE SAILING CLUB: $6k → 15%NEWPORT SEA BASE: $5k → 10%CORAL REEF SAILING: $6k → 15%DANA POINT AQUATIC FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%CITY OF MIAMI FINANCE: $7k → 15%CITY OF MIAMI BUSINESS CENTER: $5k → 15%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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of United States Sailing Association Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

United States Sailing Association Inclessmore 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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$77k · 5 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$77k
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+120%

Still filing today

100%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AS
    ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2020 · $25k · revenue +64%
  • CS
    COLUMBIA SAILING SCHOOL
    2× · 2019–2020 · $15k · revenue +38%
  • CG
    COCONUT GROVE SAILING CLUB INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $14k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +19%
  • TD
    The Downtown Sailing Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +120%
  • CO
    CITY OF MIAMI FINANCE
    one grant, 2018 · $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
Cohasset Sailing Club Inc

Sailing instructions for members.

Recreation & Sports
2
Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club

To encourage its members to become proficient in the personal management, control and handling of their yachts in every condition, including matters pertaining to navigation, semanship, cruising, competitive sailing and race management.

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3
Santa Cruz Sailing Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc

The mission of courageous sailing is to transform children's lives through sailing programs that inspire learning, personal growth, and leadership.

Unclassified
5
The San Francisco Yacht Club

The organization is an exempt social club under irc section 501(c)(7), whose program service activities are organized and operated substantially for the pleasure & recreation of its members. all programs of the club are related to the…

—
6
Cal Sailing Club

sailing and windsurfing education and access, safe boating and windsurfing education, and community sailing and windsurfing center

—
7
Collegiate Offshore Sailing Circuit Inc

To educate sailors in the skills to cruise and race offshore

Recreation & Sports
8
Marco Island Yacht Club Inc

To bind its members together by a common objective to provide leisure and recreation.

Recreation & Sports
9
San Diego Yacht Club Sailing Foundation

Promote national and international amateur sailing, maritime education and competition. the foundation supports these activities through outreach programs, training activities, provision of sailing equipment and facilities and…

Recreation & Sports
10
Dunedin Community Sailing Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
11
Corpus Christi Sailing Foundation

Corpus christi sailing foundation's mission is to promote sailing and boating in the corpus christi bay area

Recreation & Sports
12
The Long Beach Sailing Foundation

The Long Beach Sailing Foundation mission is to encourage promote and support national and international amateur sailing maritime education and community sailing opportunities. This is accomplished by owning maintaining and managing a…

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Boating Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana Point Aquatic 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 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 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
10/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC: $25,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INCASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITYCOCONUT GROVE SAILING CLUB INC: $14,218 · OtherCOCONUT GROVE SAILING CLUB INCCORAL REEF YACHT CLUB: $12,571 · OtherCORAL REEF YACHT CLUBORANGE COUNTY COUNCIL 039 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $10,000 · OtherORANGE COUNTY COUNCIL 039 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICACITY OF MIAMI FINANCE: $7,126 · OtherCITY OF MIAMI FINANCEUS SAILING CENTER LONG BEACH: $5,000 · OtherCITY OF MIAMI BUSINESS CENTER: $5,000 · OtherORANGE COAST COLLEGE SAILING CENTER: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherPACIFIC COAST SAILING FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherThe Downtown Sailing Center Inc: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Downtown Sailing Center…COLUMBIA SAILING SCHOOL: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsCOLUMBIA SAILING SCHOOLDANA POINT AQUATIC FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsDANA POINT AQUATIC FOUNDATI…Orange Coast College Foundation: $5,000 · Education
Other$118,915Recreation & Sports$40,000Education$5,000

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

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
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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United States Sailing Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United States Sailing Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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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