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East Bay Rowing

East Bay Rowing (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $294,151 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($197,239). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$598k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$294k
Net assets
$223k
5/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What East Bay Rowing does

Mission

East Bay Rowing is the home of community rowing in Oakland; we run nationally competitive rowing teams for youth and adults, fostering health, discipline, teamwork and accountability.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Providing rowing instruction to athletes of high school age through masters, from beginners to experienced rowers, with the goal of competing in local and national competitions. Continued to increase community outreach via adaptive rowing programs, corporate team building events, and learn to row sessions. Instruction emphasizes rowing skills, teamwork, fitness, water safety and respect for the natural environment of the Oakland estuary.

    $736,239 spent$511,208 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $736,239.

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 ($259k) Expenses 100 ($258k) Net assets 100 ($189k)2018 Revenue 139 ($359k) Expenses 128 ($331k) Net assets 115 ($217k)2019 Revenue 141 ($365k) Expenses 133 ($344k) Net assets 126 ($239k)2020 Revenue 133 ($344k) Expenses 117 ($301k) Net assets 149 ($281k)2021 Revenue 132 ($342k) Expenses 108 ($278k) Net assets 183 ($346k)2022 Revenue 188 ($487k) Expenses 182 ($471k) Net assets 192 ($362k)2023 Revenue 205 ($531k) Expenses 197 ($510k) Net assets 204 ($384k)2024 Revenue 208 ($539k) Expenses 189 ($489k) Net assets 230 ($433k)2025 Revenue 231 ($598k) Expenses 315 ($814k) Net assets 118 ($223k)
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Revenue (231)Expenses (315)Net assets (118)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 $487k to $226k (−54%).

$189k
$217k
$259k
$340k
$376k
$394k
$389k
$487k
$226k
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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

15% of East Bay Rowing’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$366
’17
$29k
’18
$21k
’19
$43k
’20
$64k
’21
$16k
’22
$22k
’23
$49k
’24
−$216k
’25
0.8
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.

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Listed151517281110101012
Joined·+0+8+11+7+3+0+5+5
No longer listed·060244053
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $1k → $45k.

6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 East Bay Rowing’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

East Bay Rowing leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

93% 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 East Bay Rowing.

67%
largest funder
85%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 61% · 2021 100% · 2022 74% · 2023 75% — 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

40% of East Bay Rowing's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

90% of East Bay Rowing's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $30k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside California, across 5 states.

MT
MN
PA
NJ
CA

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

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’20
’22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $264k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

East Bay Rowing has grown faster than half of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−36% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 9%Fundraising 1%

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

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds East Bay Rowing?
East Bay Rowing (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $294,151 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($197,239). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does East Bay Rowing have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $294,151 in grants to East Bay Rowing, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of East Bay Rowing?
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $197,239 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like East Bay Rowing 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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