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Wheels & Keels Foundation Inc

Wheels & keels foundation, inc.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$197kArts & Culture$112kHealth$83kYouth Development$68kHuman Services$59kEnvironment$32kInternational$10kEducation$4k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $10,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $31,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $21,500 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.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$223k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL NAVY SEAL MUSEUM$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $24k → 12%THE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $20k → 12%THE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $20k → 12%THE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $19k → 12%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$523k · 7 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$523k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+1%

Still filing today

86%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • US
    UDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $112k · revenue +115%
  • YS
    YOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER
    4× · 2021–2024 · $96k · revenue +163%
  • TA
    THE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTYINC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $83k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • FH
    FLOAT HOPE OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +26%
  • UA
    UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -1%
  • SW
    SALLY WILKEY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +332%
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
Manatee River Youth Sailing Inc
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2
City Island Rowing Inc

To provide uncompromising opportunities and support for youth and support for youth and u23 athletes to achieve their full potential in the suport of rowing

Recreation & Sports
3
Jacksonville Rowing Club Inc

Provide rowing opportunities for its members, support the continued growth of the sport of rowing.

Recreation & Sports
4
Seminole County Area Rowing Inc

Promote the sport of rowing.

Recreation & Sports
5
Sarasota Youth Sailing Inc

The organization was founded in 1980 to encourage, aid and support instructional sailing programs for juveniles, ages 8 to 18. it is a belief of the organization that the pleasures of sailing have a therapeutic effect on all children.…

Recreation & Sports
6
Sailing Yacht Research Foundation Inc

To better understand, improve and share with the public the state of the art of sailboat performance and analysis and how it relates to rating rules.

—
7
Manatee County Youth Rowing Inc

To provide rowing programs in a positive and competitive environment for all ages.

Recreation & Sports
8
Treasure Island Sailing Center Foundation

TISC students participate in positive, skill building experiences learning water safety, responsibility, respect, communication, teamwork, leadership, and appreciation for their environment. TISC is a large scale, multiuser, year round…

Recreation & Sports
9
American Sailing Institute

Sailing instruction

Recreation & Sports
10
South Jersey Rowing Club

To provide training and competition in the sport of rowing to high school students and adults in southern new jersey.

Recreation & Sports
11
United States International Tempest Association

To teach adults how to sail and race in sailboats

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12
Sarasota Scullers Youth Rowing Program Inc

Sarasota Scullers strengthens our communitys youth by developing the whole rower and instilling values that bring them success on the water and throughout life

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Float Hope of Indian River County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sebastian River Rowing 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $111,725 · OtherUDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION …LINES IN THE LAGOON INC: $31,500 · OtherLINES IN THE LAGOON INCUNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC: $10,000 · OtherUNITED AGAINST POVERTY INCTHE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTYINC: $82,800 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUN…SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS OF THE TREASURE COAST INC: $59,255 · Human ServicesSPECIAL EQUESTRIANS OF THE T…YOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER: $96,100 · Recreation & SportsYOUTH SAILING FOUNDATIO…FLOAT HOPE OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsFLOAT HOPE OF INDIAN RI…SALLY WILKEY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsSALLY WILKEY FOUNDATION…VERO BEACH ROWING INC: $74,175 · EducationVERO BEACH ROWIN…Sebastian River Rowing Inc: $6,300 · EducationSebastian River …THE MOORINGS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · EducationCROSSOVER MISSION INC: $67,780 · Youth DevelopmentCROSSOVER MIS…
Other$153,225Human Services$142,055Recreation & Sports$116,100Education$84,475Youth Development$67,780

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 budgetUDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $111,725 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetYOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER: $96,100 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetTHE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTYINC: $82,800 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetVERO BEACH ROWING INC: $74,175 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetCROSSOVER MISSION INC: $67,780 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSPECIAL EQUESTRIANS OF THE TREASURE COAST INC: $59,255 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetFLOAT HOPE OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetUNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSebastian River Rowing Inc: $6,300 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHE MOORINGS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 3.0% 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.

Indian River Communit…Quail Valley Charitie…Bernard a Egan Founda…The John's Island Fou…Morgan Stanley Global…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Indian River Community Foundation IncFL17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Indian River Community Foundation Inc · Quail Valley Charities Inc · Bernard a Egan Foundation Inc · The John's Island Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Wheels & Keels Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wheels & Keels Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%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
    8get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Wheels & Keels Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Wheels & Keels Foundation 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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