· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Maine Ultimate | $5,230 |
| Connecticut Ultimate | $5,034 |
| Triangle Ultimate | $5,028 |
| Pittsburgh Ultimate | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
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.
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
Emerald Valley Ultimate provides opportunities to learn, play, and teach Ultimate with a focus on inclusivity and Spirit of the Game.
Provide recreational leagues, clinics and tournaments to learn and participate in the sport of ultimate disc.
Foster and teach the sport of Lacrosse to young men.
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 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.
To advance gender equity in the sport of ultimate disc.
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ultimate Players Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ultimate Players Association. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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