· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $20,292 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $28,982 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,690 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Maine Ultimate | $5,230 |
| Connecticut Ultimate | $5,034 |
| Triangle Ultimate | $5,028 |
| Pittsburgh Ultimate | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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
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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- IUILLINOIS ULTIMATE3× · 2017–2019 · $40k · revenue +43%
- UUUTAH ULTIMATE DISC ASSOCIATION3× · 2019–2021 · $40k · revenue +16%
- AYAltitude Youth Ultimate3× · 2018–2020 · $40k · revenue +223%
Funded once
- UIUltimate Impact Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $16k · revenue +84%
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.
Since founding in the Fall of 2012, YULA provides opportunities for thousands of middle school and high school youth to play ultimate frisbee by providing instruction, coaching, organized practices, tournaments, and league play in…
To build bridges of friendship, understanding, and fun for youth from different social and cultural backgrounds around the world.
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.
The mission is to promote the sport of ultimate frisbee, provide an environment in which players can play and enjoy the game of ultimate frisbee, play within the spirit of the game and encourage our players to become people of integrity
Creating opportunities to play ultimate
Foster and teach the sport of Lacrosse to young men.
Provide recreational leagues, clinics and tournaments to learn and participate in the sport of ultimate disc.
To support the intercollegiate ultimate frisbee club teams at Carleton College
The Bay Area Disc Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides local community benefit by creating opportunities for people of all ages and levels to interact, develop and compete through ultimate frisbee. The principles…
The Ultimate Foundation aims to deliver the sport of Ultimate to all without limitation by supporting USA Ultimate programs which: equip players, coaches and organizers of historically underrepresented identities with resources, develop…
The Philadelphia Area Disc Alliance Provides Opportunities to learn, teach, and play ultimate frisbee while fostering community character, and competition within the greater Philadelphia region.
Serving the greater austin community by organizing, promoting and developing the sports and spirit of ultimate for all ages and level of competition.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Ultimate Disc Association and the most unlike its peers is Maine Ultimate Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 DISCNY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS ULTIMATE ↗
- Who funds UTAH ULTIMATE DISC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Altitude Youth Ultimate ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HIGH SCHOOL ULTIMATE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Ultimate Impact Inc ↗
- Who funds MAINE ULTIMATE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT ULTIMATE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE FLYING DISC ASSOCIATION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Ultimate Players Association 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.