Wisconsin · Nonprofit
ALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC
ALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $965,069 to it, the largest being FOUR-FOUR FOUNDATION INC ($464,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $623k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $965k
- Net assets
- $808k
What All Hands Boatworks Inc does
Mission
All Hands Boatworks exists to educate and empower Milwaukees disadvantaged youth (ages 10-21) using wooden boatbuilding learning and on-water activities to build skills, character, goal-setting and resilience.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
All Hands Boatworks (AHB) has developed an integrated program design that supports youth development and learning. The first level of program design is STE(A)Mboat Learning. These introductory programs focus on student in grades 5-9 at their school sites. AHE brings all the tools, lumber and supplies to conduct hands-on progects at the schools location. These manual arts, project-based programs are especially valued by schools or youth programs that do not have shop or tech-ed resources. AHB has conducted an average of 7-10 traveling STE(A)M Learning programs during each school year. Approximately 75% of participants are identified as economically disadvantaged and 17% have identified special educaion needs.
$360,970 spent$14,037 earned by the program84% of program spendingThe second level of AHBs programs is Real Apprenticeship for Teens (RAFT). During the school year, RAFT includes three eight-week sessions of carpentry skills development through advanced boatbuilding projects. Youth develop technical and job-readiness skills in a safe, structured environment that takes place at AHBs shop. After successfully completing RAFT the students are eligible for a paid, summer internship. RAFT interns work as assistants in AHBs RiverVentures day camps and also community rowing days for the public. Throughout, the emphais is on skills, social-emotional development, and environmental education activities. AHB conducts an average of 4-5 weeklong camps over the summer. Tradeworks is a part of the RAFT program design. TradeWorks is an immersive, mentored job training and carpentry skills program for young adults, ages 17-22.
$69,724 spent$29,598 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $430,694.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $536k to $851k (+59%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 8% · 2022 19% · 2023 5% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of ALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
William Nimke
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $5k → $148k.
7 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 46% · 2019 39% · 2020 58% · 2021 66% · 2022 50% · 2023 47% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
36% of ALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $147k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$6k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC?
- ALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $965,069 to it, the largest being FOUR-FOUR FOUNDATION INC ($464,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $965,069 in grants to ALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC?
- FOUR-FOUR FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $464,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 29 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing