Connecticut · Nonprofit
Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated
Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated (Connecticut) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $399,779 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($102,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $359k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $400k
- Net assets
- $198k
What Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated does
Mission
Canal Dock Boathouse's mission statement of "Opening New Haven's Waterfront for Adventure, Discovery and Growth" encapsulates the organization's purpose to provide access to and programs in and around Long Island Sound, New Haven's Harbor and rivers to underserved communities. It affirms its intent to assist in building self-confidence; clarifies its partnership with the New Haven community; and defines its core service areas. With this mission, Canal Dock's services and programs will focus on providing New Haven residents with community programs and activities that connect residents to the waterfront.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Local teens are introduced to the New Haven waterfront through rowing and paddling activities during Canal Dock's summer camp and afterschool programs, which are free and accessible to low income students.Area residents participate in Canal Dock's free seasonal monthly Community Day events that feature dragon boating,sailing, rowing and kayaking. Canal Dock has on-going partnerships with numerous local public and charter schools including Metropolitan Business Academy, Common Ground High School, Engineering and Science University Magnet School (ESUMS) and the Sound School. Canal Dock increased its water based activities by adding sailing memberships and lessons. Discounted membership fees are offered to residents who could not otherwise afford the membership fees.Canal Dock offers annual memberships to area residents allowing them to use the Organization's boats and equipment for recreation.
$296,167 spent$40,516 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $296,167.
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 2018 to 2019, from $230k to $131k (−43%).
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 3% · 2022 7% · 2023 19% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Hollis Martens
Executive Director
Board chair
Mitz Carr
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $90k → $103k.
5 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated’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
Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 99% · 2019 94% · 2020 100% · 2021 28% · 2022 28% · 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $186k 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
Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated has grown faster than half of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$150k
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 Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated: 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 Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated?
- Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated (Connecticut) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $399,779 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($102,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $399,779 in grants to Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated?
- The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $102,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 22 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