Michigan · Nonprofit
BLUE WATER SPORTMANS ASSOC INC
BLUE WATER SPORTMANS ASSOC INC (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $800 to it, the largest being NRA FOUNDATION INC ($800). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $550k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $800
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Blue Water Sportmans Assoc Inc does
Mission
To create interest in out of door sports particularly skeet and trap shooting, rifle abd revolver target practice, archery and related activities by providing a place
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
N/a
N/a
N/a
Membership dues and dontations
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2023 to 2024, from $889k to $1.0M (+16%).
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.
100% of BLUE WATER SPORTMANS ASSOC 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. 1 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Donald Morgan
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BLUE WATER SPORTMANS ASSOC 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.
Where its funders are
BLUE WATER SPORTMANS ASSOC INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 SPORTMANS ASSOC INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding BLUE WATER SPORTMANS ASSOC INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $289k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$289k
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 BLUE WATER SPORTMANS ASSOC 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
15% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLUE WATER SPORTMANS ASSOC 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 BLUE WATER SPORTMANS ASSOC INC?
- BLUE WATER SPORTMANS ASSOC INC (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $800 to it, the largest being NRA FOUNDATION INC ($800). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUE WATER SPORTMANS ASSOC INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $800 in grants to BLUE WATER SPORTMANS ASSOC INC.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUE WATER SPORTMANS ASSOC INC?
- NRA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUE WATER SPORTMANS ASSOC INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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