Portside New York Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

Once again, our tanker mary a. Whalen was the most publicly-accessible historic ship in nyc with tankertime access to the main deck and children's education cabin offered most days of the year. The audience for our monthly may through october community potluck bbq on the ship grew in numbers and the diversity of the attendees did too. This event brings adults and families together and provides experiential learning about our historic ship and port context in a welcoming atmosphere. We grew our visiting vessel program to include a new, deep partnership with the historic sloop clearwater which teaches ecology, history, and is also a training vessel. This is a major boost to local offerings as there are no educational vessels sailing out of anywhere near here. This partnership is ongoing. We promoted sails to schools and the community, narrated a talk during one public sail, and collaborated to create a multimedia film screening using our ship and the clearwater. 721 went on 17 public sails, 360 students went on 10 school field trips, 132 sailed on 4 private charters.portside's created new public, in-person, cultural programs to find ways to engage the community, adding "books ahoy" readings of children's books, a sip n paint event for adults, shape note singing, and viewing the solar eclipse. We participated again in the annual neighborhood commemoration of hurricane sandy (the barnacle parade) for which we create maritime costumes and distribute flood preparedness material. Portside is the only organization in our neighborhood that has committed to teaching students and adults about flooding and resiliency since sandy. We added those destructive waterstories topics to our program roster after sandy.portside's 2024 educational work with college and universities reflects our growing reputation for expertise in urban planning, waterfront issues, maritime past and present and the richness of our virtual museum at redhookwaterstories.org: we were contacted for the first time by colleges out of state (university of Arizona and university of Virginia) to be content advisors for urban planning/urban design studios. Also, we were the client for a local university (pratt institute) studio on participatory planning. We used the same expertise for community education related to the replanning of our location, the brooklyn marine terminal (bmt), nyc's largest land acquisition in decades, and a site of historic and current maritime activity. We were contacted by more students working on their theses than ever before. One of them, jori johnson, created the highly-praised documentary "harboring history." we hosted two public screenings of that which informed the community discussion related to bmt. We also added it to our virtual museum which is an educational resource available to all free of charge. We continued growing that virtual-museum. Our educational programs with younger students served public and private schools and homeschooled students, serving pre-k and elementary through high school students. This included schools returning with enthusiasm, plus new schools. We created a new pre-k curriculum related to tugboats for one school and led the field trip. Our community service opportunities to an area high school and cadets from suny maritime college were highly praised by students and staff. These teach interdisciplinary stem topics and additionally grow awareness of how to use the waterfront and nyc for place-based learning, and grow pathways to maritime careers. What also accomplished this was our operation christmas cheer delivery of cookies and newspapers to tugs and barges. This reached 50 vessels, more than ever before. This thanks these essential workers, and our video of this provides an educational, insider view into the working waterfront of this harbor. The video got 5.5k views on our main fb page (a new high), and many thousands more in private fb groups and other social media including our youtube pagesite disruptions in

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 90.1%; rating input score 90
• Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 9.9%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 17.3%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 49th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings