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The RL Mace Universal Design Institute

The mission of Universal Design Institute is to make the built environment easier to use and safer to live in for everyone at all ages and stages of life. UDI specializes in accessible and universal design in the commercial, public, and residential sectors.

$294k
Granted FY2017
12
Itemized grants FY2017
12
Organizations funded FY2017
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Itemized, FY2017
$287k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2017
$20,500
Largest grant, FY2017
$43,500
States reached, FY2017
4
Total assets, FY2017
$28k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Meals on Wheels and More Inc$43,50010%
Lumber River Development Corp$40,2291n/a
Mountain Housing Opportunities Inc$36,31211%
Caring and Sharing Center for Independent Living Inc$35,1171n/a
Habitat for Humanity Greater Orlando and Osceola County Inc$32,05010%
Regional Partners Network Inc$20,5001n/a
Rise$20,27713%
Disability Resource Center Inc$19,96515%
Habitat for Humanity of Georgia Inc$14,800111%
Council on Aging of Buncombe County Inc$9,76611%
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All grantees of The RL Mace Universal Design Institute by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Meals on Wheels and More Inc$43,50010%
Lumber River Development Corp$40,2291n/a
Mountain Housing Opportunities Inc$36,31211%
Caring and Sharing Center for Independent Living Inc$35,1171n/a
Habitat for Humanity Greater Orlando and Osceola County Inc$32,05010%
Regional Partners Network Inc$20,5001n/a
Rise$20,27713%
Disability Resource Center Inc$19,96515%
Habitat for Humanity of Georgia Inc$14,800111%
Council on Aging of Buncombe County Inc$9,76611%
Habitat for Humanity of El Paso Inc$7,23411%
Preserving Home Inc$7,11411%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The RL Mace Universal Design Institute supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMeals on Wheels and More Inc: $43,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMountain Housing Opportunities Inc: $36,312 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Greater Orlando and Osceola County Inc: $32,050 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRise: $20,277 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetDisability Resource Center Inc: $19,965 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Georgia Inc: $14,800 over 1y, 11% of budgetCouncil on Aging of Buncombe County Inc: $9,766 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of El Paso Inc: $7,234 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPreserving Home Inc: $7,114 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

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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.

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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.

About The RL Mace Universal Design Institute

How much does The RL Mace Universal Design Institute give?
The RL Mace Universal Design Institute reported 12 itemized grants totaling $286,864, out of $294,217 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does The RL Mace Universal Design Institute fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (34%), Community Improvement (21%), Health (19%).
Who are The RL Mace Universal Design Institute's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Meals on Wheels and More Inc ($44k), Lumber River Development Corp ($40k), Mountain Housing Opportunities Inc ($36k).
Which funders back the same organizations as The RL Mace Universal Design Institute?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The RL Mace Universal Design Institute based?
The RL Mace Universal Design Institute is based in NC.

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 12 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $5k 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 FY2017, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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