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The Up Foundation

The purpose is to provide financial and other support to children and their families affected by a debilitating disease or disorder through family services, education, and awareness.

$53k
Granted FY2019
4
Grants FY2019
4
Organizations funded FY2019
25%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$35,464
Organizations funded a year
2 to 5
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1
Total assets, FY2019
$307k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 25% of the organizations The Up Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

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HealthHuman Services
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20194$53k25%
FY20185$92k80%
FY20172$61kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Human Services$141kHealth$64kHousing & Shelter$1kInternational$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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About The Up Foundation

How much does The Up Foundation give?
The Up Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $53,464 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does The Up Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Human Services (68%), Health (31%), Housing & Shelter (0%).
Who are The Up Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Ronald McDonald House Global ($87k), Children's Heart Foundation ($60k), Cradles to Crayons Inc ($54k).
Does The Up Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is The Up Foundation based?
The Up Foundation is based in IL.

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 7 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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