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SAN DIEGO YACHT CLUB SAILING FOUNDATION

SAN DIEGO YACHT CLUB SAILING FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,347,185 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,040,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.3M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$5.9M
7/12 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What San Diego Yacht Club Sailing Foundation does

Mission

Promote national and international amateur sailing, maritime education and competition. The foundation supports these activities through outreach programs, training activities, provision of sailing equipment and facilities and encouragement of participation in local, national, and international nautical activities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide scholarships and encourage participation in local, national, and international nautical activities.

    $326,359 spentof which $238,780 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $326,359.

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 ($172k) Expenses 100 ($113k) Net assets 100 ($2.3M)2018 Revenue 109 ($188k) Expenses 110 ($125k) Net assets 98 ($2.2M)2019 Revenue 46 ($79k) Expenses 88 ($100k) Net assets 109 ($2.5M)2020 Revenue 69 ($118k) Expenses 58 ($66k) Net assets 122 ($2.8M)2021 Revenue 86 ($148k) Expenses 68 ($78k) Net assets 139 ($3.2M)2022 Revenue 10 ($17k) Expenses 138 ($156k) Net assets 191 ($4.4M)2023 Revenue 91 ($156k) Expenses 139 ($158k) Net assets 203 ($4.6M)2024 Revenue 429 ($737k) Expenses 362 ($410k) Net assets 231 ($5.3M)2025 Revenue 767 ($1.3M) Expenses 1172 ($1.3M) Net assets 258 ($5.9M)
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Revenue (767)Expenses (1172)Net assets (258)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 $3.4M to $4.7M (+38%).

$2.5M
$2.5M
$2.7M
$3.0M
$3.4M
$4.7M
$5.0M
$5.6M
$6.1M
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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

100% of SAN DIEGO YACHT CLUB SAILING FOUNDATION’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 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$59k
’17
$63k
’18
−$21k
’19
$52k
’20
$71k
’21
−$139k
’22
−$2k
’23
$327k
’24
−$11k
’25
3.5
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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Listed10811101010101010
Joined·+0+4+0+1+3+4+0+0
No longer listed·21113400
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $9k → $58k.

5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 SAN DIEGO YACHT CLUB SAILING 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

SAN DIEGO YACHT CLUB SAILING FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

93% 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 SAN DIEGO YACHT CLUB SAILING FOUNDATION.

77%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 43% · 2021 49% · 2022 46% · 2023 39% — 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

80% of SAN DIEGO YACHT CLUB SAILING FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

93% of SAN DIEGO YACHT CLUB SAILING FOUNDATION'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 $90k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from California funders.

IA
CT
CA

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

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’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

SAN DIEGO YACHT CLUB SAILING FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve3.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)29% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like SAN DIEGO YACHT CLUB SAILING FOUNDATION

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

25% of spending goes to programs.

Program 25%Management 75%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds SAN DIEGO YACHT CLUB SAILING FOUNDATION?
SAN DIEGO YACHT CLUB SAILING FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,347,185 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,040,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SAN DIEGO YACHT CLUB SAILING FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,347,185 in grants to SAN DIEGO YACHT CLUB SAILING FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SAN DIEGO YACHT CLUB SAILING FOUNDATION?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,040,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAN DIEGO YACHT CLUB SAILING FOUNDATION 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.

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 12 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