How much did SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC grant in FY2024?

SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC reported 68 grants totaling $66,353,246 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC based?

SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC is based in DC.

SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC

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· Public charity

SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC

The mission of special olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills…

$66M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$2.6M

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

jccenrichingissuesadvancepracticepolicy

2019

advocatefoodissuesjccadvancenutrition

2020

educationalcorporationhealth exercisejohn fisheradvancerecreation

2021

—

2022

—

2023

practices

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k8 grants · $326k
$50k–250k8 grants · $987k
$250k+51 grants · $54M

$643,060

Median grant

States reached

$164M

Total assets

Largest grants

SPECIAL OLYMPICS TEXAS$2,606,538
SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA$2,374,404
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN$2,181,710
SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS$2,102,162
SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK$2,014,206
SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA$1,994,745
SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA$1,832,486
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA$1,831,179
SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$1,778,369
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS$1,635,184
SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO$1,531,311
SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA$1,508,800
SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO$1,481,724
SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN$1,386,666
SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA$1,380,303

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $584k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 9%. 23% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$310M · 69 repeat orgs$6.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

69 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$310M

$4.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+33%

Still filing today

91%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Recreation & SportsHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationEnvironmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

SO
SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS
8× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +59%
SO
SPECIAL OLYMPICS TEXAS
8× · 2017–2024 · $13M · revenue +69%
SO
SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK
8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +71%

Funded once

SO
SPECIAL OLYMPICS ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
one grant, 2019 · $1.9M · revenue -97% · 100% of their budget
2S
2018 SPECIAL OLYMPICS USA GAMES
one grant, 2018 · $1.5M · 28% of their budget
SC
SPECIAL CHILDREN'S CHARITIESgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $711k · revenue +258% · 27% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Special Olympics Georgia Inc

To provide year-round training and athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage,…

Recreation & Sports

United States Olympic and Paralympic

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes.

Recreation & Sports

Special Olympics Wyoming Inc

To provide physical fitness, sports training and athletic competition for individuals with intellectual disabilities.

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2026 Special Olympics Usa Games

To provide training and competition in olympic-type sports for people with intellectual disabilities.

Recreation & Sports

United States Anti-Doping Agency

Preserve the integrity of competition, inspire true sport, protect the rights of u.s. athletes

Recreation & Sports

United States Center for Safesport

Our mission is to make athlete well-being the centerpiece of our nation's sports culture.

Recreation & Sports

United States Biathlon Association

National governing body for the olympic sport of biathlon.

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Spokane Regional Sports Commission

Economic and community development through sport tourism. bid to host and create major sporting events, and facility consultation and optimization.

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Olympus Aquatics

Olympus aquatics was organized to promote aquatic and fitness activities, such as competitive youth swimming, masters swimming and water polo. we currently have over 300 athletes participating in our programs. the number of athletes served…

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United States Olympic and Paralympic

We are home to the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic legacy, igniting dreams through athlete stories, and inspiring excellence in all whom we serve.

Arts & Culture

American Association of Adapted Sports

AAASPS Mission is to expand and sustain a standardized structure for school-based athletic competition to improve the well-being of students with physical disabilities.(SEE SCHEDULE O FOR COMPLETE DESCRIPTION)

Human Services

Colorado Springs Sports Corporation

The corporation was formed to help stage the first national sports festival. cssc set out to establish a strong regional sports presence through economic development, event promotion, and complete dedication to our youth sport and…

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana Special Olympics Inc and the most unlike its peers is St John Fisher University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.9%1/106

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,459

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

85 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

84/85

Grantees still filing

66/85

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Recreation & Sports$165,480,936Other$149,318,292Human Services$584,086Health$553,715Philanthropy$354,046Social Science$331,899Education$107,776

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Global ImpactVA32.8× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SPECIAL OLYMPICS ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~12226 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 834376683 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SPECIAL OLYMPICS ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 12226 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Special Olympics Inc?

Find your warmest path to Special Olympics Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

85 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Special Olympics Inc?

More from the funding graph

SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

85 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Special Olympics Inc?

More from the funding graph