· Public charity
United States of America Rugby Football Union Ltd
To develop and administer the sport of rugby in the united states to the highest international standards and to represent the interests of the united states in the world rugby community.
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 2 grants below total $165,851 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,608,508 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,442,657 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 |
|---|---|
| IMAGINE RUGBY INC | $94,601 |
| USA YOUTH AND HIGH SCHOOL RUGBY | $71,250 |
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 10%. 46% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 78% of United States of America Rugby Football Union Ltd’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +324% since the first grant, against -22% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- UYUSA YOUTH AND HIGH SCHOOL RUGBY2× · 2023–2024 · $90k · revenue +4%
- NCNATIONAL COLLEGIATE RUGBY ORGANIZATION INC2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue ×15
- GRGirls Rugby Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $14k · revenue +324%
Funded once
- PRPLAY RUGBY INCone grant, 2018 · $58k · revenue -33%
- PEPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZEDone grant, 2018 · $58k · revenue -22%
- USUnited States Womens Rugby Foundation Incone grant, 2020 · $47k · revenue -56%
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.
To govern youth and high school rugby in Southern California, including organizing and running league competitions and tournaments, promoting the continued growth of the game through outreach and education, and prioritizing the safety and…
To support, promote, develop and grow the sport of rugby at all levels in the united states by providing financial support to usa rugby.
To develop and administer the sport of rugby in the united states to the highest international standards and to represent the interests of the united states in the world rugby community.
To foster local, regional, national and international amateur sports competition in rugby union football, including conducting such competitions, and to support and develop amateur athletes for such competitions.
Foster national or international amateur sports - rugby
The Albany Knickerbockers Rugby Football Club was established in 1973. Building off a strong foundation begun by the clubs founders, the club eventually advanced to field a competitive Division I Men's side. The success of the club…
To provide a safe an inclusive environment for youth rugby players to play rugby in Washington State.
To foster and promote the sport of rugby in Maine New England and the US through launching and supporting youth and high school programs and teams fielding competitive womens and mens teams in local regional national and international…
The purpose of Rugby New Jersey is to promote the growth and development of the game of Rugby by providing support to NJ rugby clubs and developing participation in the sport by boys and girls across the state of NJ. It will further…
The Santa Barbara Rugby Association is organized to provide coaching, promote the development of rugby skills and sportsmanship, and encourage youth and amateur athletic competition. There were over 270 players who participated in…
Silicon Valley Rugby Football Club SVRFC is rugby program based in San Jose California and the surrounding areas. SVRFC's stated mission is encourage and grow the sport of rugby in the Silicon Valley and surrounding areas. SVRFC was…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Play Rugby Inc and the most unlike its peers is Global Communities of Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 18 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 IMAGINE RUGBY INC ↗
- Who funds USA YOUTH AND HIGH SCHOOL RUGBY ↗
- Who funds PLAY RUGBY INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COLLEGIATE RUGBY ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds United States Womens Rugby Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL COMMUNITIES OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Girls Rugby Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RUGBY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Northern California Rugby Football ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA STATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE ↗
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.
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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 United States of America Rugby Football Union Ltd 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.