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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.

$66M
Granted FY2024still arriving
68
Grants FY2024still arriving
52
States reached
$2.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Recreation & Sports$309MEducation$4.8MHealth$1.8MSocial Science$332kFood & Nutrition$181kHuman Services$140kPhilanthropy$45kCrime & Legal$42kOther$0
02FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 68 grants below total $55,231,970, the rows itemized in this filing. The $66,353,246 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $11,121,276 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $326k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $987k
  • $250k+51 grants · $54M
$643,060
Median grant
52
States reached
$164M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOCKOMOCK AREA YMCA: $13k → 11%HEALTH OUTREACH PARTNERS: $42k → 10%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $15k → 14%ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY CENTERS ON DISABILTIES: $252k → 8%ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY CENTERS ON DISABILTIES: $102k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMER: $13k → 17%AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $47k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMER: $8k → 17%SOUND GENERATIONS: $51k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $42k → 9%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

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$2.4M · 22% · 34 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM ASSISTANCE

Sub-Saharan Africa$1.9M · 17% · 34 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM ASSISTANCE

South America$1.9M · 17% · 11 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM ASSISTANCE

East Asia and the Pacific$1.7M · 15% · 21 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM ASSISTANCE

Middle East and North Africa$1.1M · 10% · 11 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM ASSISTANCE

South Asia$861k · 8% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM ASSISTANCE

Central America and the Caribbean$469k · 4% · 11 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM ASSISTANCE

North America (Canada and Mexico)$363k · 3% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM ASSISTANCE

Russia and Neighboring States$357k · 3% · 7 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM ASSISTANCE

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$311M · 69 repeat orgs$6.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
27

Total granted

$311M
$4.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+41%

Still filing today

94%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 OF TEXAS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $13M · revenue +69%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC
    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 +235% · 27% of their budget
How this is measured

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

04Its 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.

1
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.

Recreation & Sports
2
2026 Special Olympics Usa Games

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…

Recreation & Sports
3
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
4
Special Olympics Wyoming Inc

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

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5
United States Anti-Doping Agency

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

Recreation & Sports
6
Special Olympics Nevada

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…

Recreation & Sports
7
Usa Artistic Swimming

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…

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8
Southern California Committee for the Olympic Game

Promote youth physical and mental health and social and emotional learning in schools and virtually by working with olympians and paralympians.

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9
United States Center for Safesport

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…

Recreation & Sports
10
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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11
American Association of Adapted Sports Programs Inc

AAASPs mission is to expand and sustain a standardized structure for school-based athletic competition to improve the well-being of students with qualifying disabilities.AAASP is a membership organization. In Georgia, it is in alliance…

Human Services
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Iowa Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

86 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

25
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/86
Grantees still filing
65/86
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $12,629,968 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INCSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $12,442,353 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INCSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC: $12,279,002 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INCSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $11,392,344 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INCSPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc: $10,763,898 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA IncSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $8,731,534 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $8,234,130 · Recreation & SportsINDIANA SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $7,973,743 · Recreation & SportsSpecial Olympics Virginia Inc: $7,841,734 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS WEST VIRGINIA INC: $7,394,623 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC: $7,338,128 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC: $5,892,294 · Recreation & Sports+22 more: $55,921,057 · Recreation & Sports+22 moreSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS: $14,114,658 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOISSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC: $12,427,596 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INCSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC: $11,843,984 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INCSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INC: $9,678,161 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INCSPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC: $9,133,662 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INCSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC: $8,533,535 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INCSPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC: $8,234,783 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INCSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA: $6,980,260 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS WASHINGTON: $6,974,422 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC: $6,694,585 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC: $6,364,548 · OtherSpecial Olympics Oregon Inc: $5,631,099 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS LOUISIANA INC: $5,604,972 · Other+37 more: $33,698,912 · Other+37 moreAMERICAN ACADEMY OF DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY: $264,000 · HealthMEDICAID MEDICARE CHIP SERVICES DENTAL ASSOCIATION: $90,953 · HealthAMERICAN ASSOCIATION ON HEALTH & DISABILITY INC: $77,500 · HealthAMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $54,533 · HealthCHN NEBRASKA: $42,499 · HealthNational Task Group On Intellectual Disabilities and Dementia Practic: $42,273 · Health+2 more: $31,200 · HealthASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY CENTERS ON DISABILITIES: $354,000 · Human ServicesSOUND GENERATIONS: $92,953 · Human ServicesAMERICAN PUBLIC HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $47,170 · Human ServicesHealth Outreach Partners: $42,463 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $20,000 · Human Services+2 more: $27,500 · Human ServicesNATIONAL SCHOOL CLIMATE CENTER: $248,546 · PhilanthropyTHE VECNA CARES CHARITABLE TRUST: $60,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $25,000 · PhilanthropyIHRSA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES: $331,899 · Social ScienceST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY: $67,483 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH: $34,043 · EducationCATCH Global Foundation: $6,250 · Education
Recreation & Sports$168,834,808Other$145,915,177Health$602,958Human Services$584,086Philanthropy$354,046Social Science$331,899Education$107,776

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS: $14,114,658 over 8y, 17% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $12,629,968 over 8y, 19% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $12,442,353 over 8y, 19% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC: $12,427,596 over 8y, 22% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC: $12,279,002 over 8y, 22% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC: $11,843,984 over 8y, 20% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $11,392,344 over 8y, 21% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc: $10,763,898 over 8y, 13% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INC: $9,678,161 over 8y, 27% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC: $9,133,662 over 8y, 18% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $8,731,534 over 8y, 24% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC: $8,533,535 over 8y, 15% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC: $8,234,783 over 8y, 26% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $8,234,130 over 8y, 23% of budgetINDIANA SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $7,973,743 over 8y, 24% of budgetSpecial Olympics Virginia Inc: $7,841,734 over 8y, 19% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS WEST VIRGINIA INC: $7,394,623 over 8y, 95% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC: $7,338,128 over 8y, 23% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA: $6,980,260 over 8y, 24% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS WASHINGTON: $6,974,422 over 8y, 20% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC: $6,694,585 over 8y, 26% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC: $6,364,548 over 8y, 17% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC: $5,892,294 over 8y, 33% of budgetSpecial Olympics Oregon Inc: $5,631,099 over 8y, 29% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS LOUISIANA INC: $5,604,972 over 8y, 45% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC: $5,125,878 over 8y, 13% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS TENNESSEE INC: $4,615,274 over 8y, 29% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS KANSAS INC: $4,469,537 over 8y, 36% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA INC: $4,192,635 over 8y, 32% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ARKANSAS INC: $3,642,358 over 8y, 46% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS HAWAII INC: $3,628,227 over 8y, 20% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $3,568,061 over 8y, 16% of budgetSpecial Olympics Oklahoma Inc: $3,554,464 over 8y, 26% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC: $3,353,872 over 8y, 11% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $3,325,692 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS KENTUCKY INC: $3,320,081 over 8y, 19% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $3,247,006 over 8y, 26% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC: $3,016,585 over 8y, 24% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW MEXICO INC: $2,938,075 over 8y, 26% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC: $2,905,893 over 8y, 22% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS DELAWARE INC: $2,835,219 over 8y, 20% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC: $2,826,789 over 8y, 29% of budgetAlaska Special Olympics DBA Special Olympics Alaska Inc: $2,744,344 over 8y, 27% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC: $2,688,839 over 8y, 41% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC: $2,496,191 over 8y, 33% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSISSIPPI INC: $2,458,706 over 8y, 58% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT INC: $2,149,256 over 8y, 30% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS IDAHO INC: $2,128,957 over 8y, 32% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds INDIANA SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
  • Who funds Special Olympics Virginia Inc ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC ↗
  • Who funds Special Olympics Oregon Inc ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS LOUISIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS KANSAS INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARKANSAS INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS HAWAII INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC ↗
  • Who funds Special Olympics Oklahoma Inc ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS KENTUCKY INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW HAMPSHIRE INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW MEXICO INC ↗

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.

Global ImpactThe Albertsons Compan…Carmax FoundationTextron Charitable Tr…Dick's Sporting Goods…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…Aetna Foundation IncEdward Jones Foundati…Enterprise Holdings F…Gates FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…Johns Hopkins Univers…
Global ImpactDC32.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Global Impact · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Gates Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Johns Hopkins University

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 Special Olympics Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Special Olympics Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 34%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Special Olympics Inc?

Find your warmest path to Special Olympics Inc 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 107 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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