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CrossFit Foundation

The CrossFit Foundation serves as the charitable arm of CrossFit, LLC.

$365k
Granted FY2023
27
Grants FY2023
17
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Youth Development$311kEducation$144kRecreation & Sports$100kHealth$48kHuman Services$20kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2023 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 27 grants below total $305,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $365,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $60,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$485k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Forging Youth Resilience$35,000
Sonoma Valley USD$20,000
Twin Falls School District$10,000
County of Power Class A SD381$10,000
The Marsh Foundation$10,000
TredyffrinEastown School Dis$10,000
Daviess County Board of Educa$10,000
Richland School District #400$10,000
State of Hawaii Dept of Educa$10,000
River City Believers Academy$10,000
Evergreen School District 114$10,000
Vision Charter School$10,000
Stafford County Public School$10,000
Vancouver School District #37$10,000
Benton Consolidated HIgh Sch$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Koins for Kenya: $98k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Trinity Charter School

The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…

Education
2
Turlock Christian Schools Inc

Tcs is an independent christian school that prepares young men and women for college and life by providing challenging opportunities to excel in the vital areas of faith, virtue and knowledge.

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The Royal School System

The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.

Education
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Bracken Christian School of Bulverde

Bracken Christian School partners with Christian families through the leadership and guidance of the Holy Spirit to provide an excellent education within the context of a biblical worldview, equipping students to impact their communities…

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Victory Family School

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Education
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Victory Christian Academy

Victory Christian Academy's most significant activity is operating a christian school.

Education
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Austin Trinity School

Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…

Education
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Trinity School of Texasinc

Trinity school of texas successfully prepares students for college and beyond in a joyful, spiritual environment. our graduates will attain academic excellence, embrace diversity, demonstrate intellectual curiosity, appreciate the arts,…

Education
9
Valor Texas Education Foundation

Valor's mission is to educate the whole person in authentic communities for a full human life. Through our K-12 tuition-free classical charter schools and the Valor Institute, we build communities dedicated to wisdom, virtue, and…

Education
10
Veritas Academy

The mission of veritas academy is to partner with christian parents to provide their children with a classical christian education for the lifelong pursuit of wisdom and virtue in the service of jesus christ for the glory of god. its…

Education
11
The Branson School

To provide an academically exceptional education to students grade 9 through 12 in a warm, supportive, and nurturing environment.

Education
12
Truth Academy Inc

Truth academy works in partnership with families to integrate high-quality education with biblical truth and discipleship in order to train students, spiritually and academically, how to operate in their god-given purpose and live out a…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Marsh Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Trinity Athletics. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CrossFit Inc: $79,757 · OtherCrossFit IncBARBELLS FOR BOOBS: $20,000 · OtherSASSARINI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherFPSD Youth Fitness: $19,968 · OtherPORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $16,000 · Other+22 more: $220,000 · Other+22 moreKOINS FOR KENYA: $98,231 · Human ServicesKOINS FOR KENYAFORGING YOUTH RESILIENCE: $51,500 · Crime & LegalFORGING Y…BRAZOSPORT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationMULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationVision Charter School Inc: $10,000 · EducationTHE MARSH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationOPERATION SURF: $20,000 · HealthCasa Colina Centers for Rehabilitation Foundation: $7,500 · HealthTrinity Athletics: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentTravis Manion Foundation: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$375,725Human Services$98,231Crime & Legal$51,500Education$40,000Health$27,500Youth Development$20,000Philanthropy$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKOINS FOR KENYA: $98,231 over 1y, 31% of budgetFORGING YOUTH RESILIENCE: $51,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetBARBELLS FOR BOOBS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOPERATION SURF: $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRAZOSPORT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVision Charter School Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARSH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds KOINS FOR KENYA ↗
  • Who funds FORGING YOUTH RESILIENCE ↗
  • Who funds BARBELLS FOR BOOBS ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SURF ↗
  • Who funds Trinity Athletics ↗
  • Who funds Travis Manion Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BRAZOSPORT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds MULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Vision Charter School Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MARSH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Casa Colina Centers for Rehabilitation Foundation ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

GenYOUTH IncorporatedIL32.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: GenYOUTH Incorporated · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Round It Up America Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · Share Our Strength · Digital Promise Global · NRA Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization CrossFit Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from CrossFit Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to CrossFit Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to CrossFit Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $484k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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