California · Nonprofit
THE LONG BEACH SAILING FOUNDATION
THE LONG BEACH SAILING FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,155 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($70,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $400k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $156k
- Net assets
- $679k
What The Long Beach Sailing Foundation does
Mission
The Long Beach Sailing Foundation mission is to encourage promote and support national and international amateur sailing maritime education and community sailing opportunities. This is accomplished by owning maintaining and managing a fleet of identical boats Catalina 37 sailboats which are used for all the programs. The Foundation also supports youth programs and volunteer coaches.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Using the sailboat fleet as a platform to provide: 1. Boating educating and training with participants exceeding 100 annually. 2.Team building programs for educational and corporate participants. 3. Middle School level STEM program based on US Sailing Reach Curriculum.
$87,684 spentof which $15,423 as grants$49,615 earned by the program22% of program spendingProvide a sailboat fleet for organized national and international sailing events operated by local yacht clubs and sailing associations to include Congressional Cup Ficker Cup California Dreaming Series Butler Cup Long Beach Race Week Linda Elias Memorial One Design Challenge and Harbor Cup Intercollegiate Regatta.
$219,283 spentof which $2,500 as grants$165,350 earned by the program55% of program spendingFacilitate Maritime education and sailing for amateur sailors at risk youth community at large and active-duty military and first responders.
$20,146 spentof which $20,146 as grants$60,728 earned by the program5% of program spendingFleet and Fund Administration for all programs
$68,460 spent$124,289 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $395,573.
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 2023 to 2024, from $542k to $696k (+28%).
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.
59% of THE LONG BEACH SAILING FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Douglas Bower
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $500 → $12k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 THE LONG BEACH 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
THE LONG BEACH SAILING FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 THE LONG BEACH SAILING FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 80% · 2022 100% · 2023 58% — 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
80% of THE LONG BEACH 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 $31k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $126k 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.
Against its field
THE LONG BEACH SAILING FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 850 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 850 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE LONG BEACH SAILING FOUNDATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
10%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Long Beach Yacht Club · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE LONG BEACH SAILING FOUNDATION?
- THE LONG BEACH SAILING FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,155 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($70,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE LONG BEACH SAILING FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $156,155 in grants to THE LONG BEACH SAILING FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LONG BEACH SAILING FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LONG BEACH 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 7 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