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Under Armour Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$330k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$6.1MFood & Nutrition$1.0MYouth Development$1.0MSocial Science$798kRecreation & Sports$685kHuman Services$647kPublic Safety & Disaster$300kInternational$223kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $890k
  • $250k+3 grants · $830k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIVING CLASSROOMS FDN UA HOUSE$330,000
IMPACT FITNESS FOUNDATION$250,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE$250,000
ATHLIFE FOUNDATION$240,000
POSTIVE COACHING ALLIANCE$200,000
FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE$200,000
GOOD SPORTS$100,000
LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION$50,000
FUNDPLAY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP$50,000
DON'T EVER GIVE UP INC$50,000
ASPEN INSTITUTE$35,000
FIGHT FOR CHILDREN$25,000
MEALS ON WHEELS CENTRAL MARYLAND$5,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN$5,000
STONEWALL SPORTS$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $652k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%IMPACT FITNESS FOUNDATION: $250k → 7%MOWA BAND OF CHOCTAW INDIANS: $5k → 19%FIGHT FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 14%FAIR CHANCE: $10k → 14%BON SECOURS OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION: $250k → 19%SAFE ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $10k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES MARYLAND: $100k → 19%BELOVED COMMUNITY SERVICES CORP: $2k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IN
PA
CA
MO
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.0M · 25 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +203% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
64

Total granted

$8.0M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+203%
+15%

Still filing today

56%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $705k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +326%
  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $795k · revenue +231%
  • AF
    ATHLIFE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $635k · revenue +254% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • FA
    FEEDING AMERICA
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $463k · revenue +28%
  • BS
    Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +9%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
2
Bullis School

Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Bronx Lacrosse Inc Co Ota

Bronx lacrosse, inc. is a year round academic and sports-based youth development not-for-profit organization with a mission to improve educational opportunities and life outcomes for under-served middle and high school students in the…

Recreation & Sports
5
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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6
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
7
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
8
The Maryland School for the Blind

As a statewide resource center, the school provides outreach, educational and residential services for students to reach their fullest potential by preparing them to be as successful, independent, and well-rounded contributing members of…

Education
9
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
10
Family League of Baltimore City Inc

FAMILY LEAGUE OF BALTIMORE SERVES AS AN ARCHITECT OF CHANGE IN BALTIMORE BY PROMOTING DATA DRIVEN, COLLABORATIVE INITIATIVES AND ALIGNING RESOURCES TO CREATE LASTING OUTCOMES FOR CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES. THIS PAST YEAR REFLECTS…

Human Services
11
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
12
Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust

The baltimore educational scholarship trust, in partnership with our seventeen independent member schools, recruits and supports through the admissions process academically ambitious, african american students with financial need from the…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baltimore Squashwise Inc and the most unlike its peers is Baltimores Promise Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Development CentersMilitary Veterans SupportCancer Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsLgbtq+ Community SupportIndependent K-12 SchoolsChristian Missionary Organi…Community FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr16%14%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr11%14%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr16%6%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr11%30%35–55yr16%16%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/74
the rest of the field
14%
5,902/41,775

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.

04the grantee network

69 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. 69 of the 106 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/69
Grantees still filing
45/69
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LIVING CLASSROOMS FDN UA HOUSE — $2,298,000 · OtherLIVING CLASSROOMS FDN UA HOUSEFEEDING AMERICA — $1,000,000 · OtherFEEDING AMERICAIndividual grant recipient — $575,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMERICAN RED CROSS — $250,000 · OtherGLOBAL GIVING ONE FOUNDATION — $220,268 · Other+53 more — $1,462,504 · Other+53 moreFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC — $1,717,966 · EducationFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCE…UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $462,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BA…CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC — $235,000 · EducationCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION …POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE — $200,000 · EducationPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANC…+6 more — $141,000 · EducationATHLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $635,000 · Youth DevelopmentATHLIFE FOUNDAT…THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE — $625,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS AND GI…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LONG BEACH — $165,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CL…GOOD SPORTS INC — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentGOOD SPORTS INC+10 more — $157,498 · Youth Development+10 moreTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $795,000 · Social Science+1 more — $2,500 · Social ScienceBon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc — $250,000 · Human ServicesIMPACT FITNESS FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesFIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC — $25,000 · Human Services+4 more — $27,000 · Human ServicesHEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION — $180,000 · Community ImprovementLearning Undefeated Inc — $15,000 · Community ImprovementFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC — $12,500 · Community ImprovementSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS — $70,000 · Recreation & SportsHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION — $47,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER BALTIMORE INC — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE NATASHA WATLEY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsBay Area Disc Association — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsBaltimore Urban Baseball Association Inc — $7,500 · Recreation & Sports+5 more — $17,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$5,805,772Education$2,756,466Youth Development$1,682,498Social Science$797,500Human Services$652,000Community Improvement$207,500Recreation & Sports$177,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC — $1,717,966 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $795,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetATHLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $635,000 over 4y, 39% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE — $625,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $462,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC — $235,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION — $180,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LONG BEACH — $165,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetST FRANCIS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER — $125,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC — $76,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS — $70,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMENTOR INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPOINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDENT EDUCATION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION — $47,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBALTIMORE CORPS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES CAPITOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRAINBOW LABS MENTORING INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBALTIMORE SQUASHWISE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLearning Undefeated Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER BALTIMORE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetWOMAN Inc — $12,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCODE IN THE SCHOOLS INC — $12,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAIR CHANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NATASHA WATLEY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBALTIMORE DESIGN SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBay Area Disc Association — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK — $9,643 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBaltimore Urban Baseball Association Inc — $7,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBALTIMORES PROMISE INC — $7,498 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOWA BAND OF CHOCTAW INDIAN COMMISSION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL INTERSCHOLASTIC CYCLING ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA CURLING CLUB — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLoyola University Maryland Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBASH Bikers Against Statewide Hunger — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAdvance Through Athletics — $5,000 over 1y, 27% of budget
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.

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.

Baltimore Community F…The Abell Foundation …The United Way of Cen…Fund for Educational …The Harry and Jeanett…Annie E Casey Foundat…T Rowe Price Foundati…France-Merrick Founda…Brown Advisory Charit…T Rowe Price Program …Associated Jewish Cha…Family League of Balt…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD39× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Family League of Baltimore City Inc

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 Under Armour Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Baltimore Squashwise Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Baltimore Corps Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc — 6% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Beloved Community Services Corporation — 3% of income from government
  • Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc — 3% of income from government
  • The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore — 2% of income from government
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Mount Saint Mary's University Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Holistic Life Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Under Armour Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Under Armour Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 106 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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