Rhode Island · Nonprofit
SAIL TO PREVAIL
SAIL TO PREVAIL (Rhode Island) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,622,369 to it, the largest being JOHN AND DARIA BARRY FOUNDATION ($275,000). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $762k
- Funders on record
- 75
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Sail to Prevail does
Mission
Our national disabled sailing program teaches children and adults with disabilities to overcome adversity through therapeutic sailing. Participants include individuals with most any disability - such as autism, paralysis, and intellectual disabilities - and when appropriate, family members and caregivers are encouraged to participate. Wounded u.s. Military personnel also take part through dedicated programs. The pediatric cancer program includes the children's resident doctors and parents. Overall, more than 1000 participants annually learn sailing skills in a fleet of specially adapted sailboats. Sail to Prevail is increasingly promoting therapeutic sailing by sharing the program's more than two decades of successful concepts, methodologies and experiences with other organizations and individuals who might have a lasting, positive effect. The goal is to inform and educate people that therapeutic sailing can have a meaningful difference in the lives of people with disabilities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The adaptive sailing program challenges its participants in specially adapted 20-foot sailboats to contribute what they can in a "hands on" manner, no matter how severe their disability. Sailing lessons range from group programs to highly customized, individual instruction. By strongly encouraging disabled individuals to become actively engaged participants, the measurable outcomes are improved self-confidence, leadership abilities and the understanding of teamwork - necessary and valuable life skills which participants may utilize to conquer challenges in other areas of their daily lives.
$229,918 spentof which $10,010 as grants$24,570 earned by the program50% of program spendingThe education and outreach program introduces the concepts and tools that ultimately enable the participants to lead lives as full, enriching and productive as possible, with the focus of contributing to family and society. Additionally, Sail to Prevail has embarked on initiatives to utilize our programs to include medical personnel, specifically resident doctors in training, to assist in their education for and with children with disabilities or critical illness.
$227,067 spent50% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $456,985.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.0M to $2.3M (+13%).
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: 2021 7% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of SAIL TO PREVAIL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Paul Callahan
Executive director/secreta
Board chair
David Kerins Esq
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $180k → $350k.
13 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 SAIL TO PREVAIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 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
SAIL TO PREVAIL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 24% · 2019 40% · 2020 32% · 2021 28% · 2022 25% · 2023 14% — 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
45% of SAIL TO PREVAIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
SAIL TO PREVAIL draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $516k 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.
Against its field
SAIL TO PREVAIL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,769 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,769 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SAIL TO PREVAIL
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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAIL TO PREVAIL: 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 SAIL TO PREVAIL?
- SAIL TO PREVAIL (Rhode Island) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,622,369 to it, the largest being JOHN AND DARIA BARRY FOUNDATION ($275,000). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAIL TO PREVAIL have?
- IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $2,622,369 in grants to SAIL TO PREVAIL, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAIL TO PREVAIL?
- JOHN AND DARIA BARRY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $275,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAIL TO PREVAIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 75 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