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United Spinal Association Inc

Empower and advocate for people with spinal cord injury or disease and all wheelchair users to achieve their highest quality of life.

$515k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$20k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$6.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations United Spinal Association Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’23’24
HealthRecreation & SportsOther
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
FY2025still arriving1$20k0%
FY20241$37k100%
FY20232$12k100%
FY20211$7k100%
FY20191$6k100%
FY20181$350kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$57kHealth$17kArts & Culture$7kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kelea Foundation$56,800211%
North Carolina Spinal Cord Injury Association$6,00016%
United Spinal Association Inc$5,5001n/a
Greater Kansas City Spinal Cord Injury Association$5,50016%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($357k), not named here.

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About United Spinal Association Inc

How much does United Spinal Association Inc give?
United Spinal Association Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $20,000, out of $514,755 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does United Spinal Association Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (13%), Health (4%), Arts & Culture (2%).
Who are United Spinal Association Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Kelea Foundation ($57k), North Carolina Spinal Cord Injury Association ($6k), United Spinal Association Inc ($6k).
Does United Spinal Association Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is United Spinal Association Inc based?
United Spinal Association Inc is based in NY.

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 6 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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