Skip to content

Florida · Nonprofit

SARASOTA YOUTH SAILING INC

SARASOTA YOUTH SAILING INC (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $909,169 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT A BUZZELLI CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($285,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$714k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$909k
Net assets
$686k
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 59%
01What it does

What Sarasota Youth Sailing Inc does

Mission

The organization was founded in 1980 to encourage, aid and support instructional sailing programs for juveniles, ages 8 to 18. It is a belief of the organization that the pleasures of sailing have a therapeutic effect on all children. Sailing is a physical and intellectual challenge which builds self-esteem, team spirit, sportsmanship and a strong appreciation of the natural environment

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The sarasota youth sailing program continues to maintain its fleet of sailing craft for safety and performance. The children's program has grown with the additions to the instructional and racing programs.

    $396,817 spentof which $14,520 as grants$407,667 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $396,817.

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 ($484k) Expenses 100 ($404k) Net assets 100 ($425k)2018 Revenue 118 ($571k) Expenses 106 ($428k) Net assets 134 ($569k)2019 Revenue 102 ($493k) Expenses 112 ($453k) Net assets 145 ($617k)2020 Revenue 102 ($494k) Expenses 111 ($447k) Net assets 157 ($667k)2021 Revenue 79 ($381k) Expenses 104 ($419k) Net assets 126 ($536k)2022 Revenue 104 ($502k) Expenses 118 ($477k) Net assets 153 ($649k)2023 Revenue 21 ($103k) Expenses 33 ($134k) Net assets 127 ($540k)2024 Revenue 147 ($714k) Expenses 141 ($567k) Net assets 161 ($686k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (147)Expenses (141)Net assets (161)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 2017 to 2018, from $433k to $579k (+34%).

$433k
$579k
$620k
$667k
$543k
$654k
$544k
$688k
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
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

Government-grant reliance: 2020 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

32% of SARASOTA YOUTH SAILING INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$80k
’17
$144k
’18
$41k
’19
$47k
’20
−$37k
’21
$25k
’22
−$31k
’23
$146k
’24
9.4
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.

Board chair

Travis Yates

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed686778810
Joined·+6+2+1+1+3+4+2
No longer listed·4401240
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $63k → $61k.

4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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: $10k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sarasota Sailing Squadron Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SARASOTA YOUTH SAILING INC raised.

From the IRS filings of SARASOTA YOUTH SAILING INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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

SARASOTA YOUTH SAILING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

31%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 80% · 2019 48% · 2020 48% · 2021 49% · 2022 34% · 2023 49% — 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

100% of SARASOTA YOUTH SAILING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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

58% of SARASOTA YOUTH SAILING INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.

KY
GA
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $201k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

SARASOTA YOUTH SAILING INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · top quartile
Months of reserve9.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like SARASOTA YOUTH 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 Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 30%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SARASOTA YOUTH 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds SARASOTA YOUTH SAILING INC?
SARASOTA YOUTH SAILING INC (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $909,169 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT A BUZZELLI CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($285,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SARASOTA YOUTH SAILING INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $909,169 in grants to SARASOTA YOUTH SAILING INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SARASOTA YOUTH SAILING INC?
THE ROBERT A BUZZELLI CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $285,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SARASOTA YOUTH SAILING INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

Play a game about who funds Sarasota Youth Sailing →

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 9 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