California · Nonprofit
BLUE WATER FOUNDATION
BLUE WATER FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,033 to it, the largest being THE MARY NORRIS PREYER FUND CO PIEDMONT FINANCIAL TRUST COMPANY ($32,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BLUE WATER FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,485 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,485 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community Incshared funders
- Brooks-Mathews Foundationportfolio match
- Olympic Club Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $16k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 BLUE WATER FOUNDATION’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
BLUE WATER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BLUE WATER FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 97% · 2022 95% · 2023 61% — 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.
Where its funders are
BLUE WATER FOUNDATION draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community Incshared fundersNC · backs 8 organizations that share your funders
- Brooks-Mathews Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Olympic Club Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tahoe Maritime Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bay Area Community Resources Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marine Industries Association of Palm Beach County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Youth Leadership Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Louderback Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Agnes B Kline Memorial Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McGuire & Hester Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Miranda Lux Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- G4 Good Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BLUE WATER FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 BLUE WATER FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BLUE WATER FOUNDATION?
- BLUE WATER FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,033 to it, the largest being THE MARY NORRIS PREYER FUND CO PIEDMONT FINANCIAL TRUST COMPANY ($32,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUE WATER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $77,033 in grants to BLUE WATER FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUE WATER FOUNDATION?
- THE MARY NORRIS PREYER FUND CO PIEDMONT FINANCIAL TRUST COMPANY is the largest funder on record, with $32,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUE WATER FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2022–2022), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing