California · Nonprofit
BLUE WATER FOUNDATION
BLUE WATER FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,033 to it, the largest being THE MARY NORRIS PREYER FUND ($32,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $50k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $87k
- Net assets
- $5k
What Blue Water Foundation does
Mission
To serve incarcerated and at-risk youth with various sailing programs.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Blue Water Foundation serves many community groups in our region who are comprised of disadvantaged or at-risk youth. We serve approximately 300 students per year on our sailing excursions.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $16k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 37% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 63% 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 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
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
Organizations like BLUE WATER FOUNDATION
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 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLUE WATER FOUNDATION?
- BLUE WATER FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,033 to it, the largest being THE MARY NORRIS PREYER FUND ($32,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUE WATER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $87,033 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 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.
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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 7 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing