Minnesota · Nonprofit
SAVE OUR SHIP INC
SAVE OUR SHIP INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $36k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $340k
What Save Our Ship Inc does
Mission
Restoration process duluthian bert enger, of enger and olson furniture company, along with his partner marie olson, purchased the ship from captain folgero and crew soon after the voyage, and he donated the leif erikson to the city of duluth. The ship was placed on display in duluths lake park, which was later re- named leif erikson park around 1929. There the leif erikson steadily deteriorated after years of neglect and vandalism. The state of the ship reached a low point in 1980, prompting a former duluth city councilor to suggest that the leif erikson be burned in the traditional viking manner of putting a ship to rest. This suggestion inspired marie olsons grandson, will borg, to contact his boyhood friend, neill atkins, who was also serving on the city council at that time to help form a restoration committee. Neill and will brought together a diverse collection of volunteer workers to begin fundraising efforts to restore the ship to its original condition. Fundraising activities
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The leif erikson replica viking ship has been moved from duluth to a new home at the knife river heritage and cultural center, 180 marina road, knife river, mn.
$3,118 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $3,118.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SAVE OUR SHIP INC’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.
Where its funders are
100% of SAVE OUR SHIP INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SAVE OUR SHIP INC receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAVE OUR SHIP INC?
- SAVE OUR SHIP INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SAVE OUR SHIP INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,500 in grants to SAVE OUR SHIP INC.
- Who is the largest funder of SAVE OUR SHIP INC?
- RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAVE OUR SHIP INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 1 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