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Water Sports Industry Association Inc at a glance

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Water Sports Industry Association Inc

A trade association that promotes and protects towed water sports activities.

$130k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
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, FY2023 to 2025.

Public Benefit$263kEmployment$175k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $115,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $129,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $14,500 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $99k
$12,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REPUBLICAN STATE LEADERSHIP COMM$40,000
DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION$35,000
REP ASSEMBLY CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE$12,000
COMMITTEE TO ELECT A REP SENATE$12,000
ASSEMBLY DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN COMM$8,000
STATE SENATE DEMOCRATIC COMM$8,000
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 (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMPANY INC: $10k → 11%DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION: $35k → 14%COMMITTEE TO ELECT A REPUBLICAN SENATE: $12k → 10%DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATIVE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE: $15k → 14%COMMITTEE TO ELECT A REPUBLICAN SENATE: $12k → 10%REPUBLICAN STATE LEADERSHIP COMM: $40k → 14%REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLY CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE: $12k → 10%REPUBLICAN STATE LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE: $15k → 14%REP ASSEMBLY CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE: $12k → 10%REPUBLICAN STATE LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE: $15k → 14%REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLY CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE: $12k → 10%COMMITTEE TO ELECT A REP SENATE: $12k → 10%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$178k · 5 repeat orgs$260k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$178k
$225k

Still filing today

0%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
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

  • RS
    Republican State Leadership
    3× · 2023–2025 · $70k
  • RP
    REPUBLICAN PARTY OF WISCONSIN
    3× · 2023–2025 · $36k
  • C
    CERS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $36k

Funded once

  • TJ
    THE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $175k · revenue -16%
  • DG
    DEMOCRATIC GOVERNERS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • DL
    DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATIVE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
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
04the grantee network

1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2020–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2020 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 10 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
1/1
Grantees still filing
0/1
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Republican State Leadership: $70,000 · OtherRepublican State LeadershipREPUBLICAN PARTY OF WISCONSIN: $36,000 · OtherREPUBLICAN PARTY OF WISCONSINCERS: $36,000 · OtherCERSDEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION: $35,000 · OtherDEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ASSOCIATIONDEMOCRATIC GOVERNERS ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · OtherDEMOCRATIC GOVERNERS ASSOCIATIONASSEMBLY DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE: $18,000 · OtherASSEMBLY DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN COMMITTEESTATE SENATE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE: $18,000 · OtherSTATE SENATE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEEDEMOCRATIC LEGISLATIVE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE: $15,000 · OtherDEMOCRATIC LEGISLATIVE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEEPUBLIC AFFAIRS COMPANY INC: $10,000 · OtherTHE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC: $175,000 · EmploymentTHE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC
Other$263,000Employment$175,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC: $175,000 over 1y, 5.2% 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.

  • Who funds THE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC ↗

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.

Wisconsin Beer Distri…Alliance of Health In…Wisconsin Insurance A…Wisconsin Bankers Ass…Pharmaceutical Resear…Dairy Business Associ…Pharmaceutical Care M…The American Council …Wisconsin Association…Motion Picture Associ…
Wisconsin Beer Distributors Association Inc C/O the Kammer GrWI20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wisconsin Beer Distributors Association Inc C/O the Kammer Gr · Alliance of Health Insurers Ua · Wisconsin Insurance Alliance · Wisconsin Bankers Association · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Dairy Business Association Inc · Pharmaceutical Care Management Association · The American Council of Engineering Companies of Wisconsin Inc · Wisconsin Association of Health Plans Inc · Motion Picture Association Inc

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 Water Sports Industry Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Water Sports Industry Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    0get 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 10 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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