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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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$611kYouth Development$44kHousing & Shelter$31kHealth$25k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $165,851, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,608,508 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,442,657 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$94,601
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMAGINE RUGBY INC$94,601
USA YOUTH AND HIGH SCHOOL RUGBY$71,250
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 46% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%USA RUGBY TOUCH: $10k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA STATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE: $5k → 13%LET'S PLAY RUGBY: $44k → 8%PLAYWORKS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $58k → 10%INSTITUTE OF RUGBY: $5k → 11%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION: $8k → 14%URBAN RUGBY: $7k → 14%NORTHERN CALIFORNIA RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION: $6k → 19%PLAY RUGBY USA: $58k → 17%US WOMEN'S RUGBY FOUNDATION: $47k → 16%USA YOUTH AND HIGH SCHOOL RUGBY: $71k → 14%GIRLS RUGBY INC: $8k → 12%NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RUGBY ASSOCIATION: $7k → 14%IMAGINE RUGBY INC: $128k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $25k → 9%NATIONAL SMALL COLLEGE RUGBY ORGANIZATION: $25k → 7%USA YOUTH AND HIGH SCHOOL RUGBY: $19k → 14%GIRLS RUGBY INC: $6k → 12%IMAGINE RUGBY INC: $95k → 8%NATIONAL SMALL COLLEGE RUGBY ORGANIZATION: $30k → 7%NATIONAL SMALL COLLEGE RUGBY ORGANIZATION: $20k → 7%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
NY
OR
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
AZ
NC
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 78% of United States of America Rugby Football Union Ltd’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

United States of America Rugby Football Union Ltdlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 74% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$376k · 4 repeat orgs$335k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +324% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
14

Total granted

$376k
$335k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+324%
-7%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’23’24
Recreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • UY
    USA YOUTH AND HIGH SCHOOL RUGBY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $90k · revenue +4%
  • NC
    NATIONAL COLLEGIATE RUGBY ORGANIZATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue ×15
  • GR
    Girls Rugby Inc
    2× · 2018–2019 · $14k · revenue +324%

Funded once

  • PR
    PLAY RUGBY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $58k · revenue -33%
  • PE
    PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED
    one grant, 2018 · $58k · revenue -22%
  • US
    United States Womens Rugby Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $47k · revenue +27%
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
Scyr Inc

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…

Recreation & Sports
2
Usa Rugby Charitable Foundation Dba Usa Rugby Trust

To support, promote, develop and grow the sport of rugby at all levels in the united states by providing financial support to usa rugby.

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3
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.

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4
Herriman Rugby
Philanthropy
5
Raleigh Rugby Football Club Inc

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.

Recreation & Sports
6
Albany Knickerbocker Rugby Football Club Inc

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…

Recreation & Sports
7
Charles River Rugby United Inc

Foster national or international amateur sports - rugby

Recreation & Sports
8
Sbro New Jersey

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…

Recreation & Sports
9
Washington Youth Rugby

To provide a safe an inclusive environment for youth rugby players to play rugby in Washington State.

Recreation & Sports
10
Portland Rugby Football Club

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…

Recreation & Sports
11
Santa Barbara Rugby Association

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…

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12
United States Rugby Foundation

Usrf promotes amateur rugby football throughout the usa by making grants and awards, sponsoring programs for youth development, and by operating the us rugby hall of fame.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Play Rugby Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IMAGINE RUGBY INC: $222,247 · Youth DevelopmentIMAGINE RUGBY INCPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $57,740 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZEDUSA YOUTH AND HIGH SCHOOL RUGBY: $90,000 · Recreation & SportsUSA YOUTH AND HIGH SCHOOL RUGBYPLAY RUGBY INC: $57,740 · Recreation & SportsPLAY RUGBY INCNATIONAL COLLEGIATE RUGBY ORGANIZATION INC: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL COLLEGIATE RUGBY ORGANIZATION INCUnited States Womens Rugby Foundation Inc: $46,973 · Recreation & SportsUnited States Womens Rugby Foundation IncGirls Rugby Inc: $14,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $7,000 · Recreation & SportsLET'S PLAY RUGBY: $44,000 · OtherLET'S PLAY RUGBYUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHIN…NATIONAL SMALL COLLEGE RUGBY ORGANIZATION: $25,000 · OtherNATIONAL SMALL COLLE…USA TOUCH: $10,000 · OtherUSA TOUCHSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION: $7,500 · OtherSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA …URBAN RUGBY: $7,000 · OtherURBAN RUGBYNorthern California Rugby Football: $6,000 · OtherINSTITUTE OF RUGBY: $5,000 · OtherGLOBAL COMMUNITIES OF HOPE: $30,920 · Human ServicesPENNSYLVANIA STATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE: $5,000 · Education
Youth Development$279,987Recreation & Sports$265,713Other$129,500Human Services$30,920Education$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUSA YOUTH AND HIGH SCHOOL RUGBY: $90,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetPLAY RUGBY INC: $57,740 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $57,740 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL COLLEGIATE RUGBY ORGANIZATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetGLOBAL COMMUNITIES OF HOPE: $30,920 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetGirls Rugby Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION: $7,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA STATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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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 United States of America Rugby Football Union Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United States of America Rugby Football Union Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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