ROCKING THE BOAT INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B99

Classification

1000

Street

812 EDGEWATER RD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

• YOUTH DEVELOPMENT SPLIT INTO THREE TRACKS WOODEN BOATBUILDING, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND JUSTICE, AND SAILING AND TWO LEVELS STUDENT AND APPRENTICE BUT UNITED THROUGH A SHARED FOCUS ON GIVING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN BY DOING PRACTICAL WORK THAT PRODUCES TANGIBLE RESULTS. LICENSED SOCIAL WORKERS ON STAFF PROVIDE SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL AND ACADEMIC SUPPORT FOCUSED ON POST-SECONDARY READINESS AND OVERSEEING A PEER MENTORING PROGRAM.THE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM TAKES PLACE IN THE SOUTH BRONX AND SAN FRANCISCO.

  Expenses $2,779,947 · Grants $16,000

• PUBLIC PROGRAMS OFFERS UNIQUE YEAR-ROUND EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PROGRAMS FOR SCHOOL, CAMP, AND OTHER COMMUNITY GROUPS. GROUPS EXPLORE THEIR LOCAL ECOSYSTEM, LEARN NEW SKILLS AND PRACTICE TEAMWORK THROUGH ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT WITH THE NATURAL WORLD, SCIENCE EXPLORATIONS AND ROWING. DURING THE SUMMERTIME, ROCKING THE BOAT WELCOMES THE PUBLIC ABOARD STUDENT-BUILT WOODEN ROWBOATS AND SAILBOATS, ACCOMPANIED BY ROCKING THE BOAT'S STAFF WHO TEACHES THEM ABOUT THE LOCAL WATERWAYS, AND INTRODUCES VISITORS TO BIRDWATCHING.A PARALLEL PROGRAM TAKES PLACE IN INDIA BASIN ON SAN FRANCISCO BAY.

  Expenses $599,619 · Revenue $150,982

• SAIL CENTRAL PARK - FOR THE FIRST TIME IN CENTRAL PARK BOAT POND'S HISTORY ROCKING THE BOAT IS USING THE SITE FOR MISSION-ALIGNED EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS. RUNNING THE MODEL SAILBOAT CONCESSION, A STORIED INSTITUTION RECOGNIZED AROUND THE WORLD, IS AN INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY FOR BOAT LOVERS TO HAVE SAILING EXPERIENCE IN THE HEART OF NEW YORK CITY. UNDERSERVED AND TITLE 1 SCHOOLS IN MANHATTAN NOW WILL BE ABLE TO ACCESS ROCKING THE BOAT PROGRAMMING IN THE CITY MORE EASILY THAN IF THEY HAD TO TRAVEL TO THE BRONX.

  Expenses $549,517 · Revenue $245,616

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $4,846,335

  Expenses

  $4,889,246

  Contributions

  $4,314,726

  Grants paid

  $16,000

• 2024

  Revenue

  $4,761,605

  Expenses

  $3,955,894

  Contributions

  $4,397,016

  Grants paid

  $16,000

• 2023

  Revenue

  $4,983,860

  Expenses

  $3,302,138

  Contributions

  $4,817,727

  Grants paid

  $17,000

• 2022

  Revenue

  $3,147,837

  Expenses

  $3,121,341

  Contributions

  $3,011,591

  Grants paid

  $9,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,160,920

  Expenses

  $2,762,634

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,907,331

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,691,068

  Expenses

  $2,475,607

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,647,713

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,956,427

  Expenses

  $2,796,263

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,978,814

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,999,728

  Expenses

  $2,569,763

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,718,814

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,025,171

  Expenses

  $2,444,745

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,484,230

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,585,755

  Expenses

  $2,349,161

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,729,853

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,177,926

  Expenses

  $2,126,719

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,458,428

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,170,402

  Expenses

  $1,776,823

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,378,280

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,728,792

  Expenses

  $1,731,846

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,975,808

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $1,752,616

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,015,831

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $1,174,600

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION

  $210,000

  2024 · FOR PROJECT SUPPORT

• GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $190,000

  2023 · COMMUNITY OUTREACH & ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS

• GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $186,500

  2024 · COMMUNITY OUTREACH & ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $172,450

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $171,275

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $145,500

  2022 · COMMUNITY OUTREACH & ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS

• THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST

  $80,600

  2023 · FOR PROGRAM SUPPORT.

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $72,163

  2023 · YOUTH SEAWEED FARMING IN LONG ISLAND SOUND

• THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST

  $58,000

  2023 · FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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