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INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE BLUE GAVEL

INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE BLUE GAVEL (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being BARBARA AND FRANKLIN CARSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$56k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$5k
Net assets
$0
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What International Order of the Blue Gavel does

Mission

To provide furnish and maintain headquarters facilities and such other facilities as required in the support of nautical instruction safety education preservation of the environment recreational and competitive activities and pastimes for the pleasure accommodations and the social enjoyment of the membership their families and their associates and to encourage and promote yachting and in all ways seek to provide through the yacht club Chapter a practical means to support facilitate and augment the endeavors of the active Officers of the Club. By advising and counseling such Officers to the end of enhancing the pleasure and the well-being of all members and the prestige of the Club.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. IOBG supports the activities of local boating and yachting clubs supporting their regattas and other activities associated with operating a club while preserving the traditions of the yachting customs.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($82k) Expenses 100 ($63k) Net assets 100 ($165k)2018 Revenue 94 ($76k) Expenses 99 ($62k) Net assets 109 ($179k)2019 Revenue 84 ($68k) Expenses 113 ($71k) Net assets 105 ($174k)2020 Revenue 82 ($67k) Expenses 14 ($9k) Net assets 131 ($217k)2021 Revenue 62 ($51k) Expenses 50 ($32k) Net assets 143 ($236k)2022 Revenue 43 ($35k) Expenses 46 ($29k) Net assets 148 ($243k)2023 Revenue 56 ($46k) Expenses 83 ($52k) Net assets 145 ($239k)2024 Revenue 55 ($45k) Expenses 52 ($33k) Net assets 153 ($252k)2025 Revenue 68 ($56k) Expenses 41 ($26k) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (68)Expenses (41)Net assets (0)

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 $252k to $0 (−100%).

$184k
$191k
$185k
$217k
$236k
$243k
$239k
$252k
$0
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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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$19k
’17
$14k
’18
−$2k
’19
$59k
’20
$19k
’21
$7k
’22
−$6k
’23
$12k
’24
$30k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE BLUE GAVEL’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.

Where its funders are

INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE BLUE GAVEL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 1 state in all.

FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE BLUE GAVEL

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 Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE BLUE GAVEL: 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 INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE BLUE GAVEL?
INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE BLUE GAVEL (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being BARBARA AND FRANKLIN CARSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE BLUE GAVEL have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE BLUE GAVEL.
Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE BLUE GAVEL?
BARBARA AND FRANKLIN CARSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE BLUE GAVEL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 1 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