Illinois · Nonprofit
Sheridan Shore Sailing School
Sheridan Shore Sailing School (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,067 to it, the largest being Cleave Family Foundation ($114,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Sheridan Shore Sailing School has grown faster than half of the 15,485 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,485 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Knowles Foundationshared funders
- Bonnell Cove Foundationportfolio match
- Brooks-Mathews Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
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 4% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of Sheridan Shore Sailing School’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $14k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 Sheridan Shore Sailing School’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
Sheridan Shore Sailing School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 84% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 85% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of Sheridan Shore Sailing School's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Knowles Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 6 organizations that share your funders
- Bonnell Cove Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brooks-Mathews Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pacific Swimming Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Shore Playhouse Associates Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- George Pocock Rowing Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth & Families Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- R Dudley Harrington Jr Char Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pk Johnstone & He Kimball Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bf & Rose H Perkins Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Maportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- USA Swimming Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Sheridan Shore Sailing School
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sheridan Shore Sailing School: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Sheridan Shore Sailing School?
- Sheridan Shore Sailing School (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,067 to it, the largest being Cleave Family Foundation ($114,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sheridan Shore Sailing School have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $123,067 in grants to Sheridan Shore Sailing School, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sheridan Shore Sailing School?
- Cleave Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $114,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sheridan Shore Sailing School find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing