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Ultimate Players Association

USA Ultimate serves as the governing body for the sport of Ultimate in the US, making it responsible for enhancing and promoting the sport through character, community, and competition.

$29k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2024
$20k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$5,034
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,230
Organizations funded a year
3 to 9
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$6.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations Ultimate Players Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
Recreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY2024still arriving4$20k100%
FY20213$30k0%
FY20206$75k0%
FY20198$110k38%
FY20189$121k44%
FY20175$75kn/a
97% 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$390kYouth Development$26kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
NC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Georgia Ultimate$40,0003n/a
Illinois Ultimate$40,0003n/a
Discny Incorporated$40,000314%
Pennsylvania Ultimate$40,0003n/a
Utah Ultimate Disc Association$40,00039%
Altitude Youth Ultimate$40,00037%
California Ultimate$40,0003n/a
New England Ultimate Incorporated$25,0002n/a
North Carolina Ultimate$25,0002n/a
Minnesota High School Ultimate League$25,0002n/a
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All grantees of Ultimate Players Association by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Georgia Ultimate$40,0003n/a
Illinois Ultimate$40,0003n/a
Discny Incorporated$40,000314%
Pennsylvania Ultimate$40,0003n/a
Utah Ultimate Disc Association$40,00039%
Altitude Youth Ultimate$40,00037%
California Ultimate$40,0003n/a
New England Ultimate Incorporated$25,0002n/a
North Carolina Ultimate$25,0002n/a
Minnesota High School Ultimate League$25,0002n/a
Ultimate Impact Inc$16,1701n/a
Maine Ultimate Inc$5,23012%
Connecticut Ultimate Club Inc$5,0341n/a
Triangle Flying Disc Association$5,02811%
Pittsburgh Ultimate$5,0001n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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About Ultimate Players Association

How much does Ultimate Players Association give?
Ultimate Players Association reported 4 itemized grants totaling $20,292, out of $28,982 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Ultimate Players Association fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (90%), Youth Development (6%).
Who are Ultimate Players Association's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Georgia Ultimate ($40k), Illinois Ultimate ($40k), Discny Incorporated ($40k).
Does Ultimate Players Association fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ultimate Players Association?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Ultimate Players Association based?
Ultimate Players Association is based in CO.

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 16 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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