South Carolina · Public charity
Upward Unlimited
Upward Sports is the world's largest Christian sports provider for youth athletics. The mission of Upward Sports is to promote the discovery of Jesus through sports. Upward Sports provides valuable resources that aid in planning, training, and executing first-class, organized, and detailed sports offerings. Upward Sports' values are…
- $302k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 67
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $239k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $29,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 67
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $54M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Upward Unlimited 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; $2.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $239k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 67 | $2.5M | 100% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $10k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $23k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $78k | 88% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $22k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $176k | 83% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $1.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upward Unlimited Foundation | $1,000,000 | 1 | 71% |
| Anderson Mill Road Baptist Church | $450,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jumpstart | $375,000 | 1 | 59% |
| North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention Inc | $300,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Young Life | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Campus Outreach Columbia | $150,000 | 1 | 7% |
| International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention | $130,000 | 1 | n/a |
| First Baptist Church of Spartanburg Inc | $88,204 | 4 | n/a |
| Colorado Youth Sports Club | $83,000 | 1 | 48% |
| Campus Crusade for Christ Inc | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 85 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upward Unlimited Foundation | $1,000,000 | 1 | 71% |
| Anderson Mill Road Baptist Church | $450,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jumpstart | $375,000 | 1 | 59% |
| North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention Inc | $300,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Young Life | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Campus Outreach Columbia | $150,000 | 1 | 7% |
| International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention | $130,000 | 1 | n/a |
| First Baptist Church of Spartanburg Inc | $88,204 | 4 | n/a |
| Colorado Youth Sports Club | $83,000 | 1 | 48% |
| Campus Crusade for Christ Inc | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Impact Sports International | $60,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Anderson University | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Holly Springs Baptist Church | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Miracle Hill Ministries Inc | $42,300 | 1 | 0% |
| Collins Home Family Ministries | $40,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Neighborhood Focus | $40,000 | 1 | 5% |
| South Carolina Baptist Convention | $36,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Win Awakening Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 97% |
| Mountain Creek Baptist Church | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nashville Youth Sports Club Inc | $29,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Bailey Christian Church | $26,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Catawba Baptist Church | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ro-Twelve Ministries | $25,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Hearts for Eternity Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Griggs Memorial Independent Baptist Church | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Clark County Youth Sports Association | $25,000 | 1 | 45% |
| Fourth Watch Evangelistic Ministry | $25,000 | 1 | 23% |
| Grace Community Church of Sc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Bible Church of Beaufort Sc | $24,850 | 2 | n/a |
| Seattle Youth Sports Club | $20,700 | 1 | 34% |
| Hands and Feet Project Inc | $20,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Fire Pit Ranch | $20,342 | 1 | 2% |
| Prison Fellowship Ministries | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Switch | $20,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Sonshine Club | $20,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Isaiah 117 House | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hope Remains Youth Ranch Inc | $15,400 | 1 | 3% |
| Lead Collective Inccha | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Mission Metroplex Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Front Porch Housing | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hearts 4 Ukraine | $15,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Davids Table Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Band of Brothers Prison Ministry Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Mission Increase | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Faith Home Inc | $14,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Mexico Orphan Missions Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 10% |
| Advance Global | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Alpha International Ministries Inc Dba Advancing International Missions | $12,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Ads for Christ | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Carolina Pregnancy Center | $12,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Sidewalk Hope Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 4% |
| The Westminster Presbyterian Church | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| West Valley Church of the Nazarene | $11,978 | 1 | n/a |
| Christian Families Against Destructive Decisions | $10,500 | 1 | 4% |
| New Day Orphanage | $10,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Taylors Free Medical Clinic Inc | $10,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Brown Family Ministries Inc | $10,500 | 1 | 4% |
| Greer Christian Learning Center Inc | $10,500 | 1 | 2% |
| The First Reformed Church of Ravenna Michigan | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Delaware Youth Sports Club | $10,000 | 1 | 7% |
| First Baptist Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Carolina Thunderbirds | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Switzer First Baptist Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Providence Presbyterian Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Holston Creek Baptist Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Comfort Cause | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Warren Woods Baptist Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Houston Youth Athletic Club | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Onelife Institute Inc | $9,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Grace Klein Community Inc | $9,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Disciples Village | $9,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Second Presbyterian Church | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| North Hills Baptist Church | $7,023 | 1 | n/a |
| Turning Point Church | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Praise Assembly of God | $6,876 | 1 | n/a |
| East Newnan Baptist Church | $6,666 | 1 | n/a |
| Dayton Church of God | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kelleytown Baptist Church of Hartsville South Carolina Incorpor | $5,327 | 1 | n/a |
| St John Lutheran Church Lutheran Church Missouri Synod | $5,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Wilds Christian Association Inc | $5,100 | 1 | 0% |
| Cudd Memorial Baptist Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Association of Church Sports and Recreation Ministers Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Bill Cox Abundant Life Ministries | $5,000 | 1 | 38% |
| Lone Oak First Baptist Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| First Baptist Church of Alpharetta | $2,700 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Upward Unlimited supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: South Carolina Christian Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · Spartanburg County Foundation · Delta Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Kellett Family Foundation · Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation · United Way of the Piedmont Inc · The Jolley Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Celanese Foundation
How this is measured
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About Upward Unlimited
- How much does Upward Unlimited give?
- Upward Unlimited reported 3 itemized grants totaling $239,000, out of $302,132 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 67 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Upward Unlimited fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (56%), Youth Development (23%), Crime & Legal (8%).
- Who are Upward Unlimited's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Upward Unlimited Foundation ($1.0M), Anderson Mill Road Baptist Church ($450k), Jumpstart ($375k).
- Does Upward Unlimited fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Upward Unlimited?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include South Carolina Christian Foundation, J M Smith Foundation, Spartanburg County Foundation.
- Where is Upward Unlimited based?
- Upward Unlimited is based in SC.
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