California · Nonprofit
CHALLENGED SAILORS SAN DIEGO INC
CHALLENGED SAILORS SAN DIEGO INC (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $171,469 to it, the largest being SHANKLIN FOUNDATION ($75,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $177k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $171k
- Net assets
- $301k
What Challenged Sailors San Diego Inc does
Mission
Adaptive sailing for persons with disabilities we offer weekly sailing opportunities for medically stable persons with almost any type of physical disability at no cost. We own and maintain (8) 16 foot martin sailboats specially adapted for their use and (1) skud. Two of the martins are with systems for use by the severly disabled. Sailors are able to skipper if wish. 438 participants
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We offer weekly sailing opportunities for medically stable persons with almost any type of physical disability at no cost. We own and maintain (8) 16 foot martin sailboatx specially adapted for their use and (1) 18 foot skud. Two (2) of the martins are equipped with systems for severly disabled opportunities for competitive racing regattas for persons with disabilities both by organizing regattas and by providing the disabled with boats to use in other regattas provide sailing instruction camps for person with disabilities
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $160k to $301k (+89%).
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.
97% of CHALLENGED SAILORS SAN DIEGO INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $6k → $37k.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 CHALLENGED SAILORS SAN DIEGO 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
CHALLENGED SAILORS SAN DIEGO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 CHALLENGED SAILORS SAN DIEGO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 58% · 2020 100% · 2021 86% · 2022 61% · 2023 68% — growing more concentrated.
“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 CHALLENGED SAILORS SAN DIEGO INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 45% 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
CHALLENGED SAILORS SAN DIEGO INC draws 79% 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. $70k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CHALLENGED SAILORS SAN DIEGO INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CHALLENGED SAILORS SAN DIEGO 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHALLENGED SAILORS SAN DIEGO INC?
- CHALLENGED SAILORS SAN DIEGO INC (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $171,469 to it, the largest being SHANKLIN FOUNDATION ($75,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHALLENGED SAILORS SAN DIEGO INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $171,469 in grants to CHALLENGED SAILORS SAN DIEGO INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHALLENGED SAILORS SAN DIEGO INC?
- SHANKLIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHALLENGED SAILORS SAN DIEGO INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 11 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