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The Ironman Foundation Inc

To leave ironman's legacy through philanthropy, volunteerism and grant making; by supporting various athletic, community, education, health, human services and public benefit non-profit organizations around the world.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$38k
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$866kEducation$522kReligion$337kPublic Safety & Disaster$322kYouth Development$261kPhilanthropy$259kArts & Culture$254kPublic Benefit$249kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 28 grants below total $348,299, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,403,889 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,055,590 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 $10k14 grants · $90k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $258k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DESTINATION MADISON FOUNDATION DBA MADISON AREA SPORTS COMMISSION$37,500
ETHAN SCHUSTER MEMORIAL FUND FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION AND MENTAL HEALTH (GREA$33,428
WALKER COUNTY GOVERNMENT$32,000
SALT RIVER COMM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$25,000
LYDIA8$20,576
GREATER AUGUSTA SPORTS COUNCIL$14,900
INTERFAITH OF THE WOODLANDS$14,500
BOY SCOUT TROOP 491$12,750
UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS$12,500
1 BETTER CHRIS NIKIC FOUNDATION$12,146
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION$12,074
WASHINGTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FDN$11,000
ISLAND BREEZE MINISTRIES$10,000
CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION$10,000
FOREVER FAMILIES THROUGH ADOPTION$9,078
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, $248k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PERIOD KITS MN: $6k → 7%TEAM CATAPULT: $15k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER TULSA: $10k → 15%FREE TO RUN INC: $10k → 9%YMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH: $10k → 17%TEAM CATAPULT: $8k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER TULSA: $6k → 15%PARADOX SPORTS: $6k → 12%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%RACHAL'S RECOVERY RELIEF: $50k → 12%PARADOX SPORTS: $5k → 12%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%TEXAS NEW COMMUNITY ALLICANCE DBA NEW DANVILLE: $6k → 9%FOREVER FAMILIES THROUGH ADOPTION: $9k → 13%SWITCHPOINT COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $7k → 10%MONTGOMERY COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES: $9k → 9%THE GATHERING INN: $6k → 13%ANGEL REACH: $9k → 9%ANGEL REACH: $6k → 9%ANGEL REACH: $12k → 9%ANGEL REACH: $10k → 9%ANGEL REACH: $9k → 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

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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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 42 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
99

Total granted

$2.0M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+19%

Still filing today

71%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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
Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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

  • TD
    The Daniel R Sayre Memorial Foundation
    5× · 2017–2022 · $127k · revenue +105%
  • WR
    WOODLANDS RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $116k · revenue +2%
  • TW
    THE WASHINGTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $106k · revenue +173%

Funded once

  • KA
    KONA AQUATICS CLUB INC
    one grant, 2022 · $110k · revenue -72% · 29% of their budget
  • SU
    STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $101k · revenue +21%
  • CO
    CITY OF PANAMA CITYCOMMUNITY DEV
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
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
Kailua Canoe Club

Promote and provide for the paddler, member, family, and community the sport of outrigger canoe paddling and other ocean-related activities.

Recreation & Sports
2
Usa Cycling Inc

Usa cycling is the national governing body for cycling, making it responsible for the conduct and administration of cycling in the usa. the mission of usa cycling is to develop the sport of cycling in the united states at all levels and to…

Recreation & Sports
3
Usa Triathlon

The mission of USA Triathlon of Colorado (USAT) is to grow, inspire, and support the triathlon community.

Recreation & Sports
4
Uhiwai O Haleakala

The mission of the corporation shall be to work with partners to protect and restore native ecosystems and watersheds, to improve the quality and quantity of freshwater resources to perpetuate hawaiian cultural resources and practices, to…

Environment
5
Lai Hauola

To preserve the immediate and long-term health and wellbeing of lahaina's diverse communities and precious natural resources.

Food & Nutrition
6
Young Men's Christian Association of Honolulu

Strengthening communities is the y's cause through programs and services focused on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility.

Human Services
7
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
8
Tampa Bay Sports Commission Inc

Our mission is to generate social and economic impact throughout the tampa bay region by attracting, promoting and/or organizing youth and amateur sporting events and initiatives.

Recreation & Sports
9
New York Road Runners Inc

As a new york city based nonprofit, we're dedicated to transforming the health and well-being of our communities through inclusive and accessible running experiences, empowering all to achieve their potential.

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10
United States Anti-Doping Agency

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

Recreation & Sports
11
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
12
Kauai Economic Development Board

To develop innovative, effective partnerships with public, private, non- profit, and other community sectors to accomplish shared goals for a strong economy.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc; the most unlike its peers is Eastern Trail Management District. 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

114 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. 114 of the 156 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)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
110/114
Grantees still filing
71/114
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MADISON AREA SPORTS COMMISSION INC: $182,460 · OtherMADISON AREA SPORTS COMMISSION INCKONA AQUATICS CLUB INC: $110,000 · OtherTHE WASHINGTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $105,645 · OtherCITY OF PANAMA CITYCOMMUNITY DEV: $100,000 · OtherIRONMAN 4 THE KIDZ: $100,000 · OtherWALKER COUNTY GOVERNMENT: $96,000 · OtherENGAGE YOUR DESTINY: $85,946 · Other+98 more: $1,750,407 · Other+98 moreYoung Men's Christian Association of Southeastern North Carolina Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men…RACHAL'S RECOVERY RELIEF INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesRACHAL'S …ANGEL REACH: $45,000 · Human ServicesANGEL REA…CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGE…TEAM CATAPULT: $23,000 · Human ServicesTEAM CATA…THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER TULSA: $15,525 · Human Services+10 more: $82,599 · Human Services+10 moreWOODLANDS RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY INC: $115,500 · Community ImprovementDESTINATION MADISON FOUNDATION INC: $74,840 · Community ImprovementMAKU'U FARMERS HAWAIIAN HOMESTEAD ASSOCIATION: $70,000 · Community ImprovementLP-EC QUALITY DESTINATION INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementFOUNDATION FOR PUERTO RICO INC: $10,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $16,805 · Community ImprovementSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $100,894 · EducationEDUCATION FOR TOMORROW ALLIANCE: $75,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA INC: $34,100 · EducationROSELAND CHARTER SCHOOL: $22,700 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Education+3 more: $18,080 · EducationThe Daniel R Sayre Memorial Foundation: $126,700 · Public Safety & DisasterALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $60,000 · Public Safety & DisasterKENT ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $23,599 · Public Safety & DisasterPATH PEOPLE FOR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION HAWAII: $17,118 · Public Safety & DisasterTEAM RUBICON INC: $16,000 · Public Safety & DisasterVASH HAWAII ISLAND: $15,000 · Public Safety & DisasterWestern States Endurance Run Foundation: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE KYLE PEASE FOUNDATION INC: $41,053 · PhilanthropyGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $33,428 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc: $31,000 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $12,146 · PhilanthropyTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENS JUSTICE CENTER OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $10,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII ISLAND UNITED WAY INC: $8,000 · PhilanthropyWine to Water: $86,315 · EnvironmentTHE TENNESSEE RIVER GORGE TRUST INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentCORPORATION FOR THE CONSERVATION OF THE SAN JUAN BAY ESTUARY: $20,000 · EnvironmentPuerto Rico Conservation Trust Fund: $20,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF LAKE SONOMA: $10,000 · Environment
Other$2,530,458Human Services$356,124Community Improvement$297,145Education$260,774Public Safety & Disaster$258,417Philanthropy$205,627Environment$156,315

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMADISON AREA SPORTS COMMISSION INC: $182,460 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetThe Daniel R Sayre Memorial Foundation: $126,700 over 5y, 16% of budgetWOODLANDS RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY INC: $115,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKONA AQUATICS CLUB INC: $110,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $105,645 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $100,894 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Southeastern North Carolina Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWine to Water: $86,315 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetENGAGE YOUR DESTINY: $85,946 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetEDUCATION FOR TOMORROW ALLIANCE: $75,000 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetDESTINATION MADISON FOUNDATION INC: $74,840 over 2y, 44% of budgetWEAR BLUE RUN TO REMEMBER: $71,100 over 1y, 13% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $54,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRACHAL'S RECOVERY RELIEF INC: $50,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetWestern States Endurance Run Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetANGEL REACH: $45,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetRebuilding Together Houston: $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKAIOPUA CANOE CLUB: $41,250 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetTHE KYLE PEASE FOUNDATION INC: $41,053 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetLydia8: $40,576 over 2y, 30% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS HAWAII INC: $37,550 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGREATER AUGUSTA SPORTS COUNCIL INC: $34,900 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA INC: $34,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $33,428 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALKER COUNTY FARM BUREAU INC: $32,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetISLAND BREEZE MINISTRIES: $30,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER PETALUMA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetGREATER LOUISVILLE SPORTS COMMISSION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetECHO HAITI INC: $26,600 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetKENT ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $23,599 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTEAM CATAPULT: $23,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetROSELAND CHARTER SCHOOL: $22,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION FOR THE CONSERVATION OF THE SAN JUAN BAY ESTUARY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $17,550 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPATH PEOPLE FOR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION HAWAII: $17,118 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetFeeding America: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGULF COAST CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $15,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER TULSA: $15,525 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetONBIKES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetST GEORGE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetVASH HAWAII ISLAND: $15,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCarilion Clinic Foundation: $13,835 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $12,146 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $12,074 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARADOX SPORTS: $11,700 over 2y, 1.6% 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.

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.

United Way of Greater…Junior League of the …Wcn CaresThe Woodforest Charit…Exxonmobil FoundationMontgomery County Com…National Council of Y…Memorial Hermann Heal…Truist Foundation IncAtherton Family Found…Shell USA Company Fou…McNabb Foundation
United Way of Greater HoustonTX18.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Houston · Junior League of the Woodlands Inc · Wcn Cares · The Woodforest Charitable Foundation · Exxonmobil Foundation · Montgomery County Community Foundation · National Council of YMCAs of the USA · Memorial Hermann Health System · Truist Foundation Inc · Atherton Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · McNabb Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Gulf Coast Children's Advocacy Center Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
  • Onbikes Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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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Find your warmest path to The Ironman Foundation 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 156 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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