California · Nonprofit
WEST COAST SEAFARING SOCIETY
WEST COAST SEAFARING SOCIETY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $78,000 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($78,000). 1 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
- $29k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $78k
- Net assets
- $73k
What West Coast Seafaring Society does
Mission
The mission of the West Coast Seafaring Society is to educate its members and thegeneral public on the west coast's maritime heritage, to develop a knowledgeablecommunity of enthusiasts, and to empower those individuals to perpetuate this livinghistory. We focus on maritime history, heritage boat restoration and preservation,seamanship, sailing traditions, and sailing, and the vital role that maritime arts andtraditions have played in west coast history and culture.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Its current primary project is the restoration and preservation in perpetuity of yankee, a 52'wooden sailing schooner built by w.f. Stone in san francisco in 1906.
$19,336 spentof which $28,660 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $19,336.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $76k to $115k (+51%).
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.
100% of WEST COAST SEAFARING SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% 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.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Charles Hart
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
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 WEST COAST SEAFARING SOCIETY’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 WEST COAST SEAFARING SOCIETY'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. $78k 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
WEST COAST SEAFARING SOCIETY's revenue fell 47% between 2019 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like WEST COAST SEAFARING SOCIETY
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WEST COAST SEAFARING SOCIETY: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WEST COAST SEAFARING SOCIETY?
- WEST COAST SEAFARING SOCIETY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $78,000 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($78,000). 1 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 WEST COAST SEAFARING SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $78,000 in grants to WEST COAST SEAFARING SOCIETY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST COAST SEAFARING SOCIETY?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $78,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST COAST SEAFARING SOCIETY 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.
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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 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