· Public charity
Special Olympics Inc
Special olympics strives to create a better world by fostering the acceptance and inclusion of people of all abilities through sports, health and education programs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 68 grants below total $55,231,970 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $66,353,246 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,121,276 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $326k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $987k
- $250k+51 grants · $54M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $584k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $11M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: PROGRAM ASSISTANCE
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Stated purpose: PROGRAM ASSISTANCE
Stated purpose: PROGRAM ASSISTANCE
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
69 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS8× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +59%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $13M · revenue +69%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +71%
Funded once
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2019 · $1.9M · revenue -97% · 100% of their budget
- 2S2018 SPECIAL OLYMPICS USA GAMESone grant, 2018 · $1.5M · 28% of their budget
- SCSpecial Children's Charitiesgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $711k · revenue +235% · 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.
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.
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…
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
To provide physical fitness, sports training and athletic competition for individuals with intellectual disabilities.
Preserve the integrity of competition, inspire true sport, protect the rights of u.s. athletes
Appointed as the governing body by the us olympic committee, our mission is to provide leadership and resources for the promotion growth of synchronized swimming and to achieve competitive excellence at all levels and to develop broad…
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. This gives them continuing opportunities to…
With the goal of ensuring athletes within the u.s. olympic and paralympic movement of are safe, supported, and strengthened. the center: delivers comprehensive abuse prevention education within and outside of the u.s. olympic and…
Promote youth physical and mental health and social and emotional learning in schools and virtually by working with olympians and paralympians.
Economic and community development through sport tourism. bid to host and create major sporting events, and facility consultation and optimization.
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…
The endowment provides a permanent endowment to foster the united states of america's participation in national and international amateur sports competition. this is done through direct support of the united states olympic and paralympic…
United States Ski Association is the national governing body overseeing the sports of Olympic and Paralympic skiing and snowboarding in the United States. See Schedule O for continuation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Iowa Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Saint Joseph. 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.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
86 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 86 of the 107 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
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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.
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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 organization 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.
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Health Resources in Action Inc — 39% of income from government
- Association of University Centers On Disabilities — 34% of income from government
- Special Olympics Delaware Inc — 3% of income from government
- University of Saint Joseph — 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
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 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.
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