· Public charity
Ulse Inc
ULSE INC.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $211,515 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $530,526 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $319,011 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–50k9 grants · $154k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES | $50,000 |
| LEAGUE OF AMERICAN WHEELMEN INC | $37,500 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE | $22,000 |
| DARYL AND SHIRLEY JENKINS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NORTH AMERICAN BIKE-SHARE ASSOCIATION | $19,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS INC | $12,500 |
| NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS | $12,153 |
| ATLANTA REGIONAL COMMISSION | $10,362 |
| PHOENIX SOCIETY FOR BURN SURVIVORS | $10,000 |
| SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL NATIONAL | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL CORBON MONOXIDE AWARENESS ASSOC | $8,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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 — $307k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT
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.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 8 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k 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
NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +6%- ANAMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE2× · 2023–2024 · $32k · revenue +9%
- NCNATIONAL CARBON MONOXIDE AWARENESS ASSOCIATION2× · 2023–2024 · $14k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- NCNORTH CAROLINA A & T STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $250k
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +91%- MSMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $100k
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 foster licensed professional engineers in service to society.
The mission of the american society of mechanical engineers ("asme") is to advance engineering for the benefit of humanity.
Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
The national association of state workforce agencies (naswa) mission is to enhance the state workforce agencies' ability to accomplish their goals, statutory roles and responsibilities.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
To enhance the competitiveness of manufacturers by shaping a legislative and regulatory environment conducive to u.s. economic growth and to increase understanding among policymakers, the media, and the general public about the vital role…
To provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners, and the public, asce will: facilitate the advancement of technology; encourage and provide the tools for lifelong learning; promote professionalism and the profession;…
SPIE is an international nonprofit technical society dedicated to advancing scientific research and engineering applications of optical, photonic, imaging and optoelectronic technologies through its meetings, education programs and…
The national safety council's mission is to eliminate the leading causes of preventable death and injury. nsc's efforts and thought leadership center on impacting safety through education and training.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kids in Danger. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 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) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 25 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.
- Who funds NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CONSUMER TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHBROOK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds American Society of Safety Professionals Foundation ↗
- Who funds Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep ↗
- Who funds League of American Wheelman Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN BIKE-SHARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS FORUM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CARBON MONOXIDE AWARENESS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CONFEDERATION OF INDIAN INDUSTRY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS INC ↗
- Who funds National Society of Black Engineers ↗
- Who funds Safe Routes to School National ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Kids In Danger ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Underwriters Laboratories Inc · AARP · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Ulse 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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