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NORCAL CREW

NORCAL CREW (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $675,789 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($257,200). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.7M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$676k
Net assets
$217k
8/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Norcal Crew does

Mission

Norcal Crew is dedicated to training youth in the sport of competitive rowing. The organization has teams for boys and girls from age 12-18. Most are from the local area around redwood city california. Its activities involve on-the-water training in a variety of boat types and sizes as well as significant dry land training. Most of the training is conducted in redwood city and is supervised by professional coaches. The teams compete in a number of regattas both locally and around the united states.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide on-the-water and land traing of competitive sport rowing to youth from age 12-18. Youth teams compete in regattas locally and around the united states.

    $471,209 spent$474,614 earned by the program
    81% of program spending
  2. Provide on-the-water and land traing of competitive sport rowing to youth from age 12-18. Youth teams compete in regattas locally and around the united states.

    $106,981 spent
    19% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $578,190.

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 ($977k) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($596k)2018 Revenue 104 ($1.0M) Expenses 95 ($1000k) Net assets 60 ($356k)2019 Revenue 119 ($1.2M) Expenses 143 ($1.5M) Net assets 4 ($26k)2020 Revenue 144 ($1.4M) Expenses 117 ($1.2M) Net assets 48 ($287k)2021 Revenue 182 ($1.8M) Expenses 154 ($1.6M) Net assets 79 ($470k)2022 Revenue 182 ($1.8M) Expenses 186 ($1.9M) Net assets 49 ($294k)2023 Revenue 201 ($2.0M) Expenses 185 ($1.9M) Net assets 55 ($326k)2024 Revenue 169 ($1.7M) Expenses 168 ($1.8M) Net assets 36 ($217k)
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Revenue (169)Expenses (168)Net assets (36)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 2021 to 2022, from $638k to $295k (−54%).

$596k
$356k
$185k
$314k
$638k
$295k
$393k
$286k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

71% of NORCAL CREW’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$72k
’17
$14k
’18
−$331k
’19
$187k
’20
$161k
’21
−$167k
’22
$28k
’23
−$107k
’24
1.4
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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Listed48766131010
Joined·+5+2+0+0+7+3+1
No longer listed·1310061
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $250 → $50k.

9 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 NORCAL CREW’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

NORCAL CREW leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

98% 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 NORCAL CREW.

38%
largest funder
75%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 85% · 2020 58% · 2021 38% · 2022 61% · 2023 60% — 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

38% of NORCAL CREW's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

95% of NORCAL CREW'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 $32k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

CA

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

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’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $644k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NORCAL CREW's revenue grew 69% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−6% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like NORCAL CREW

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

33% of spending goes to programs.

Program 33%Management 67%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds NORCAL CREW?
NORCAL CREW (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $675,789 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($257,200). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does NORCAL CREW have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $675,789 in grants to NORCAL CREW, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NORCAL CREW?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $257,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NORCAL CREW 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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