· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $121,667 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $231,857 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $110,190 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.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| USA YOUTH & HIGH SCHOOL RUGBY | $45,000 |
| USA RUGBY | $20,000 |
| USA YOUTH & HIGH SCHOOL RUGBY | $16,000 |
| GIRLS RUGBY INC | $10,000 |
| RUGBY WASHINGTON | $10,000 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| RUGBY LA | $6,667 |
| ELLENSBURG YOUTH RUGBY | $6,500 |
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 (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 34% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
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 FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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× · 2022–2023 · $86k · revenue +46%
- GRGirls Rugby Inc3× · 2021–2023 · $33k · revenue +85%
- USUNITED STATES OF AMERICA RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION LTD2× · 2022–2023 · $30k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- CBCHUCKANUT BAY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +31%
- BGBennett Gallery Incone grant, 2019 · $29k
- CLCrusaders Limited Partnershipone grant, 2021 · $16k
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.
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…
Foster national or international amateur sports - rugby
The goal of the granite bay rugby program is to teach the basic skills and fundamentals of the game maintain a policy of no-cuts promote universal participation utilize positive reinforcements foster pride in individual accomplishments and…
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 mission of the iowa youth rugby association is to grow the game of rugby and instill the core values of sport through providing a safe, organized, and positive experience for youth in iowa. and to proivde a pathway for iowans to excel…
To promote and encourage teamwork, physical fitness and public participation in rugby
Primary Exempt Purpose - Provide competent referees for rugby (juniors through clubs) mainly in Northern California and sometimes worldwide.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United States of America Rugby Football Union Ltd and the most unlike its peers is Thomas Jefferson University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 17 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 USA YOUTH AND HIGH SCHOOL RUGBY ↗
- Who funds CHUCKANUT BAY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Girls Rugby Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OF AMERICA RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION LTD ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON YOUTH RUGBY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COLLEGIATE RUGBY ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RUGBY LA ↗
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 Rugby Foundation 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.