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Under Armour Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE$250,000
IMPACT FITNESS FOUNDATION$250,000
ATHLIFE FOUNDATION$240,000
POSTIVE COACHING ALLIANCE$200,000
FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE$200,000
GOOD SPORTS$100,000
FUNDPLAY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP$50,000
LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION$50,000
DON'T EVER GIVE UP INC$50,000
ASPEN INSTITUTE$35,000
FIGHT FOR CHILDREN$25,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN$5,000
STONEWALL SPORTS$5,000
MEALS ON WHEELS CENTRAL MARYLAND$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IN
PA
CA
MO
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +203% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
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.

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%
  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
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.

04Its field

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.

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…

—
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baltimore Squashwise Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/69
Grantees still filing
46/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 & SportsBay Area Disc Association: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE NATASHA WATLEY FOUNDATION: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $200,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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 budgetGOOD SPORTS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 budgetDENT EDUCATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetPOINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIMENTOR INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION: $47,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBALTIMORE CORPS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES CAPITOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRAINBOW LABS MENTORING INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetHOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLearning Undefeated Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBALTIMORE SQUASHWISE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER BALTIMORE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetFAIR CHANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBay Area Disc Association: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE NATASHA WATLEY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBALTIMORE DESIGN SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetLoyola University Maryland Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL INTERSCHOLASTIC CYCLING ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA CURLING CLUB: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAdvance Through Athletics: $5,000 over 1y, 27% of budget
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.

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 tightly interlocked group: 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Under Armour Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Under Armour Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 106 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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