Rhode Island · Nonprofit
UNITED STATES SAILING FOUNDATION
UNITED STATES SAILING FOUNDATION (Rhode Island) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,459,954 to it, the largest being JAMES M SCHOONMAKER II FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
UNITED STATES SAILING FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
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.
- Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJshared funders
- Brooks-Mathews Foundationportfolio match
- The Zarrella Family Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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.
81% of UNITED STATES SAILING FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $55k → $883k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 UNITED STATES 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
UNITED STATES SAILING FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 92% · 2022 60% · 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.
How long its funders stay
14% of UNITED STATES SAILING FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 31% give in more than one year at all.
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
UNITED STATES SAILING FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $436k 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.
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. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJshared fundersNJ · backs 61 organizations that share your funders
- Brooks-Mathews Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Zarrella Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- R Dudley Harrington Jr Char Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lyn & Margaret Comfort Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Liu Shiming Art Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United States Olympic and Paralympic Committeeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Peter and Eaddo Kiernan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Whimsie Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Quarterdeck Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pegasus Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lotz Family Foundationportfolio 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 UNITED STATES SAILING FOUNDATION
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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
1% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- United States Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED STATES SAILING FOUNDATION: 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 UNITED STATES SAILING FOUNDATION?
- UNITED STATES SAILING FOUNDATION (Rhode Island) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,459,954 to it, the largest being JAMES M SCHOONMAKER II FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED STATES SAILING FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $3,459,954 in grants to UNITED STATES SAILING FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED STATES SAILING FOUNDATION?
- JAMES M SCHOONMAKER II FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED STATES SAILING FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 13funders 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