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CHARLESTON COMMUNITY SAILING INC

CHARLESTON COMMUNITY SAILING INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $282,060 to it, the largest being TURNER FOUNDATION INC ($190,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$448k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$282k
Net assets
$222k
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Charleston Community Sailing Inc does

Mission

To provide access, facilities and sailing instruction to anyone, regardless of socioeconomic background, skill level or physical ability.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide venue for high school sailing league including regional competitions with other schools in and out of state, while also hosting events for junior high schools. Provide resources and supplies for the special olympic sailing program. Offer sailing programs from beginner through advanced sailors that are open to the public.

    $240,275 spent$135,596 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $240,275.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($206k) Expenses 100 ($194k) Net assets 100 ($217k)2018 Revenue 94 ($193k) Expenses 101 ($197k) Net assets 98 ($213k)2019 Revenue 85 ($175k) Expenses 99 ($193k) Net assets 91 ($196k)2020 Revenue 92 ($190k) Expenses 103 ($200k) Net assets 86 ($186k)2021 Revenue 124 ($256k) Expenses 107 ($207k) Net assets 108 ($235k)2022 Revenue 111 ($229k) Expenses 156 ($302k) Net assets 75 ($163k)2023 Revenue 104 ($214k) Expenses 154 ($299k) Net assets 36 ($77k)2024 Revenue 145 ($298k) Expenses 160 ($311k) Net assets 30 ($65k)2025 Revenue 217 ($448k) Expenses 158 ($306k) Net assets 102 ($222k)
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Revenue (217)Expenses (158)Net assets (102)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $65k to $222k (+240%).

$224k
$213k
$196k
$204k
$235k
$163k
$77k
$65k
$222k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

74% of CHARLESTON COMMUNITY SAILING INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$12k
’17
−$3k
’18
−$17k
’19
−$11k
’20
$49k
’21
−$72k
’22
−$85k
’23
−$13k
’24
$141k
’25
4.2
months of
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

Brooks Harken

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed99101111104412
Joined·+0+1+5+4+0+1+3+8
No longer listed·00441730
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $25k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 CHARLESTON COMMUNITY SAILING INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. 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

CHARLESTON COMMUNITY SAILING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

67%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 80% · 2019 100% · 2020 69% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 80% — 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

CHARLESTON COMMUNITY SAILING INC draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 4 states in all.

MI
CT
SC
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’23
South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHARLESTON COMMUNITY SAILING INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin32% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like CHARLESTON COMMUNITY SAILING 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 South Carolina

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 12%Fundraising 9%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

SC

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHARLESTON COMMUNITY SAILING 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 CHARLESTON COMMUNITY SAILING INC?
CHARLESTON COMMUNITY SAILING INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $282,060 to it, the largest being TURNER FOUNDATION INC ($190,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHARLESTON COMMUNITY SAILING INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $282,060 in grants to CHARLESTON COMMUNITY SAILING INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHARLESTON COMMUNITY SAILING INC?
TURNER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $190,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHARLESTON COMMUNITY SAILING INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 8 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