Rhode Island · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC
COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $500,793 to it, the largest being THE CHAMPLIN FOUNDATION ($87,243). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $417k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $501k
- Net assets
- $683k
What Community Boating Center Inc does
Mission
The organizations primary purpose is to provide instruction and access to recreational sailing and boating for all, with an emphasis on children, without regard to financial station, through programs designed to build self-esteem, broaden horizons, and advance environmental awareness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
YOUTH LESSONS AND MEMBERSHIP: The youth lesson programs teach children important virtues and lessons about life through sailing such as: cause and effect, problem-solving, science and technology, and teamwork. The underlying approach in all activities is to ensure that students enjoy both the challenge and fun of sailing and to instill the principals of sportsmanship, leadership, and self-reliance in all our youth sailors. Approximately 376 youth members were served during the year.
$266,811 spentof which $69,010 as grants$199,225 earned by the program83% of program spendingADULT LESSONS AND MEMBERSHIP: The adult lesson formats offer great opportunities for learning and growth with a highly structured curriculum that allows stepped progression through a variety of opportunities for beginner, racing or cruising-minded sailors. Approximately 90 adult members were served during the year.
$38,861 spent$31,500 earned by the program12% of program spendingYOUTH AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS: An outreach program targeted towards making sailing accessible and affordable to children at risk or adrift within the Providence area. This sailing program combines boys and girls from different cultures and backgrounds to work together learning tolerance, trust and respect for one another while building upon their sailing skills. Unlike other ordinary sporting activities, sailing promotes physical skills, intelligence, sound judgment, self-reliance and significant responsibilities for a vessel, crew and self. During the spring, summer and fall programming, approximately 247 youths were served.
$15,186 spent$9,300 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $320,858.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $475k to $587k (+24%).
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 12% · 2021 7% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
John O'Flaherty
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $33k → $106k.
4 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER 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
COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
37% 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 COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 35% · 2019 55% · 2020 41% · 2021 23% · 2022 56% · 2023 59% — 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
47% of COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $134k 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.
Organizations like COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER 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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER 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 COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC?
- COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $500,793 to it, the largest being THE CHAMPLIN FOUNDATION ($87,243). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $500,793 in grants to COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC?
- THE CHAMPLIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $87,243 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 24 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