Massachusetts · Nonprofit
NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC
NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,478,191 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($419,600). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Nantucket Community Sailing Inc does
Mission
To engage people of all ages in the joy of sailing, offering access to all nantucket's youth, and teaching every participant in our programs enduring life and leadership skills, with a deep respect for the marine environment.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Nantucket community sailing (ncs) offers a full range of youth and adult group sailing lessons, private sailing lessons, and provides hourly rentals of sailboats, kayaks and paddleboards to members and the general public. The sailing programs are offered from two locations on nantucket, jetties beach and polpis harbor. The organization provides $150,000 in youth sailing scholarships and free community outreach to underserved children and adults who would otherwise not be able to get out on the water. In addition, the organization runs regattas during the summer to include more people in the sport of sailing and as fundraising events to support the sailing programs. The organization operates the programs and events with a focus on sustainability, and collaborates with other non-profit organizations to maintain nantucket's water quality.in 2023 the organization had 601 enrollments in youth sailing classes over eight weeks, representing 433 unique students. 35% of the students are year-round nantucket children, and the organization provided $85,773 in scholarships to 111 island children. The organization's community outreach programs served 550 children and adults with free sailing…
$1,101,336 spentof which $85,773 as grants$578,965 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,101,336.
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 2017 to 2018, from $3.8M to $4.6M (+22%).
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 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Diana L Brown
President & CEO
Board chair
Harry Rein
Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $205k → $238k.
14 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $11k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Great Harbor Yacht Club Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC raised.
From the IRS filings of NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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
NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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 NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 54% · 2019 14% · 2020 19% · 2021 12% · 2022 19% · 2023 15% — 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
48% of NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
53% of NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC'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 $1.2M that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 18 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,564 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,564 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Organizations like NANTUCKET 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 NANTUCKET 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 NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC?
- NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,478,191 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($419,600). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $2,478,191 in grants to NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $419,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 61 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing