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United States Soccer Federation

To work in service to soccer and ignite a national passion for the game.

$3.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
31
States reached
$550k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Recreation & Sports$14MPublic Safety & Disaster$28kArts & Culture$27kEducation$25kHealth$18kYouth Development$15kPublic Benefit$10kCivil Rights$10k
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $463k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
$45,359
Median grant
31
States reached
$459M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION$550,000
FAYETTE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS$347,684
CALIFORNIA SOUTH STATE SOCCER ASSN$259,779
EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION$214,325
FLORIDA YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC$206,091
KENTUCKY YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC$202,708
MASSACHUSETTS YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC$198,017
AMERICAN AMPUTEE SOCCER ASSOCIATION$195,813
NEBRASKA STATE SOCCER ASSOCIATION$186,230
SOUTH TEXAS YOUTH SOCCER ASSN$166,313
UNITED STATES YOUTH FUTSAL FOUNDATION$159,506
CALIFORNIA YOUTH SOCCER ASSOC-NORTH$153,500
IDAHO YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION$145,050
MISSISSIPPI SOCCER ASSOCIATION$100,194
KANSAS STATE YOUTH SOCCER ASSN$93,750
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%South Asian Youth Action: $15k → 13%American Red Cross: $16k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

AK
NH
WA
ID
MT
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IL
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NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
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CA
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MO
KY
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VA
MD
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NM
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TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
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AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 51 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
22

Total granted

$12M
$678k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+15%

Still filing today

98%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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
Recreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther

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

  • EP
    EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA YOUTH SOCCER A
    5× · 2020–2025 · $700k · revenue +69%
  • GS
    GEORGIA STATE SOCCER ASSN INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $613k · revenue +7%
  • UY
    UTAH YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2020–2025 · $542k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • OS
    OHIO SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $175k · revenue -9%
  • DS
    DOWN SYNDROME SPORTS OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $101k
  • LC
    Legacy Connectionsgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $80k · revenue +248%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Michigan State Youth Soccer Assoc

To foster the physical, mental and emotional growth and development of michigan's youth through the sport of soccer by providing the governing structure to administer youth soccer in the state of michigan and to provide information to…

Recreation & Sports
2
Seattle Youth Soccer Association

Provide organized soccer for the youth in seattle

Recreation & Sports
3
National Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association

The national intercollegiate soccer officials association ("nisoa") is an organization of more than 4,500 soccer officials which trains, certifies, and provides qualified soccer referees for the college soccer community throughout the…

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4
United States Soccer Federation

To work in service to soccer and ignite a national passion for the game. work with members, partners, donors, and board to grow awareness and participation of the game, through soccer everywhere, soccer success, and soccer investment.

Recreation & Sports
5
Wauconda Area Youth Soccer Club

Provide recreational soccer for children 3-14

Recreation & Sports
6
Usc - United Soccer Clubs

The mission of the United Soccer Clubs (USC) is to provide an exceptional platform for youth soccer in South Texas. We aim to elevate the game of soccer by fostering player, coach, and referee development, promoting parent education,…

Recreation & Sports
7
Usa Soccer Inc

USA Soccer Inc provides unique opportunities for talented male and female youth athletes to train under the guidance of professional coaches committed to improving the quality of youth soccer.

Recreation & Sports
8
Santa Barbara Soccer Club

Provides youth soccer development and amateur athletic competition through coaching, training and competition.

Recreation & Sports
9
Southern Utah Soccer Association

To improve and enhance the soccer environment in the greater southern utah area and provide programs that will provide a means for all player to achieve their individual soccer goals.

Recreation & Sports
10
Sonoma Valley Youth Soccer Association

The competitive soccer league is present to the youth of sonoma from the ages 7-18 throughout the year. players must try out during the designated tryout period to be considered to be selected for the team. as competitve players are…

Recreation & Sports
11
Portland Youth Soccer Association

To provide the youth of Portland area communities with the opportunity to experience the joy and thrill of soccer in a player centered environment. The main focus is on FUN and DEVELOPMENT with age appropriate training and coaching where…

Recreation & Sports
12
Carolina Youth Soccer Association

To provide all families a positive, healthy, progressive environment for youth development through soccer in our community.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Youth Soccer Association North and the most unlike its peers is National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%55%35–55yr16%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%65%35–55yr16%4%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/83
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,482

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

75 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. 75 of the 83 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/75
Grantees still filing
55/75
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA YOUTH SOCCER A — $700,339 · Recreation & SportsEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA YOUTH SOCCER AAMERICAN YOUTH SOCCER ORGANIZATION — $550,000 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN YOUTH SOCCER ORGANIZATIONWYOMING SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $530,365 · Recreation & SportsWYOMING SOCCER ASSOCIATIONNEW JERSEY STATE YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $490,997 · Recreation & SportsNEW JERSEY STATE YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATIONMONTANA YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $433,648 · Recreation & SportsWASHINGTON YOUTH SOCCER FOUNDATION — $399,413 · Recreation & SportsCEREBRAL PALSY SOCCER INC — $355,750 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN AMPUTEE SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $332,188 · Recreation & SportsUnited States Youth Soccer Association Inc — $313,246 · Recreation & SportsKENTUCKY YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC — $300,208 · Recreation & SportsCOLORADO SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $288,025 · Recreation & Sports+29 more — $3,923,149 · Recreation & Sports+29 moreGEORGIA STATE SOCCER ASSN INC — $613,144 · OtherGEORGIA STATE SOCCER ASSN INCUTAH YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $542,086 · OtherUTAH YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATIONUNITED STATES ADULT SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $472,570 · OtherUNITED STATES ADULT SOCCER ASSOCIA…OREGON YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $406,837 · OtherOREGON YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATIONUNITED STATES ASSOCIATION OF BLIND ATHLETES INC — $394,491 · OtherUNITED STATES ASSOCIATION OF BLIND…FAYETTE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — $347,684 · OtherFAYETTE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSION…MASSACHUSETTS YOUTH SOCCER ASSOC INC — $314,289 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS YOUTH SOCCER ASSOC I…FLORIDA YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC — $206,091 · OtherUSYF FOUNDATION — $159,506 · Other+24 more — $1,008,630 · Other+24 moreCALIFORNIA STATE SOCCER ASSOC SOUTH — $752,070 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COMPETITIVE SOCC SOCCER CLUBS D/B/A US CLUB SOCCER — $117,833 · Youth DevelopmentDELAWARE YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $31,875 · Youth DevelopmentUnited States Deaf Soccer Organization — $192,434 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $14,990 · EducationBILLIE JEAN KING FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationMINNESOTA YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $183,000 · Community ImprovementYOU CAN PLAY — $55,745 · Civil RightsAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $15,901 · Human ServicesSOUTH ASIAN YOUTH ACTION SAYA INC — $15,000 · Human Services
Recreation & Sports$8,617,328Other$4,465,328Youth Development$901,778Education$217,424Community Improvement$183,000Civil Rights$55,745Human Services$30,901

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCALIFORNIA STATE SOCCER ASSOC SOUTH — $752,070 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA YOUTH SOCCER A — $700,339 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetGEORGIA STATE SOCCER ASSN INC — $613,144 over 5y, 11% of budgetAMERICAN YOUTH SOCCER ORGANIZATION — $550,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUTAH YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $542,086 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetWYOMING SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $530,365 over 5y, 39% of budgetNEW JERSEY STATE YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $490,997 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetUNITED STATES ADULT SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $472,570 over 4y, 15% of budgetMONTANA YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $433,648 over 4y, 21% of budgetOREGON YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $406,837 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetUNITED STATES ASSOCIATION OF BLIND ATHLETES INC — $394,491 over 2y, 23% of budgetCEREBRAL PALSY SOCCER INC — $355,750 over 4y, 75% of budgetAMERICAN AMPUTEE SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $332,188 over 4y, 32% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS YOUTH SOCCER ASSOC INC — $314,289 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetUnited States Youth Soccer Association Inc — $313,246 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetKENTUCKY YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC — $300,208 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetCOLORADO SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $288,025 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $272,163 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetVIRGINIA YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC — $266,400 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetINDIANA SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC — $265,663 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetIOWA SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC — $247,735 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC — $236,738 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC — $228,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED SOCCER COACHES ASSOCIATION — $217,688 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetFLORIDA YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC — $206,091 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetMINNESOTA YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $183,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetILLINOIS YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $181,569 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetIDAHO YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $178,594 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetOHIO SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC — $175,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetWISCONSIN YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC — $162,074 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetNORTH TEXAS STATE SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC — $152,314 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetMARYLAND STATE YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC — $151,807 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetFLORIDA ADULT SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC — $147,128 over 3y, 26% of budgetMISSOURI YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $127,468 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COMPETITIVE SOCC SOCCER CLUBS D/B/A US CLUB SOCCER — $117,833 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMISSISSIPPI SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC — $113,194 over 2y, 14% of budgetTENNESSEE STATE SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $112,746 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetUnited States Youth Soccer Nevada — $104,567 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetALASKA STATE YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $100,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetWomens Sports Foundation — $100,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetOKLAHOMA SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC — $98,179 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT JUNIOR SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC — $97,500 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetALABAMA SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $95,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetLegacy Connections — $80,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $72,821 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetSOCCER ASSOCIATION FOR YOUTH USA — $60,615 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOU CAN PLAY — $55,745 over 1y, 23% of budget
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.

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.

Dick's Sporting Goods…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Dick's Sporting Goods FoundationPA14× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Soccer Federation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
8report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 83 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home