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NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN SAILOR FOUNDATION
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN SAILOR FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,065 to it, the largest being Siron Foundation co Jeffrey Sartell ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN SAILOR FOUNDATION receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,675 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2018
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Kaminsky Family Foundationshared funders
- Brooks-Mathews Foundationportfolio match
- Tahoe Maritime Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50 → $5.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN SAILOR FOUNDATION’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
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN SAILOR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN SAILOR FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Kaminsky Family Foundationshared fundersFL · backs 4 organizations that share your funders
- Brooks-Mathews Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tahoe Maritime Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James M Schoonmaker II Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pritzker Military Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sporty's Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mark E Bryant Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- R Dudley Harrington Jr Char Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- General Society of Colonial Warsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Hudson Heritage Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN SAILOR FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN SAILOR FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN SAILOR FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN SAILOR FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,065 to it, the largest being Siron Foundation co Jeffrey Sartell ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN SAILOR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,065 in grants to NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN SAILOR FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN SAILOR FOUNDATION?
- Siron Foundation co Jeffrey Sartell is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN SAILOR FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2018–2018), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing