Massachusetts · Nonprofit
COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC
COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,498,189 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($787,185). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc does
Mission
The mission of courageous sailing is to transform children's lives through sailing programs that inspire learning, personal growth, and leadership.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Youth sailing; programs are designed to support positive life and job skills, and provide opportunities not otherwise available for underserved, urban youth. With boston public schools and other partners, courageous sailing center for youth blends sailing, swimming and academics designed to support out-of-school-time learning. Programs include environmental/marine science curriculum and instructor training/professional development.
$2,215,226 spent$575,994 earned by the program100% of program spendingProvides adults and families with affordable, day sailing, sailing instruction and racing on boston harbor. Revenue from adult programs supports provides financial support for youth programs.
$260,250 earned by the program
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,215,226.
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 $1.3M to $1.9M (+55%).
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 1% · 2021 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (72% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
David Dilorenzo
Executive director
Board chair
Dave Alexander
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $114k → $742k.
12 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
58% 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 COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 32% · 2019 27% · 2020 25% · 2021 22% · 2022 23% · 2023 24% — 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
46% of COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
75% of COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 611 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 611 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $412k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$412k
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 COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH 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 COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC?
- COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,498,189 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($787,185). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $4,498,189 in grants to COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $787,185 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 49 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