· Public charity
Upward Unlimited Foundation
To accelerate the mission of Upward Unlimited by creating fundraising opportunities for individuals, institutions, and other non-profits to invest in the Upward Unlimited mission thereby overcoming risks and challenges due to lack of funding.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Upward Unlimited | $104,352 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +353% since the first grant, against -74% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 3 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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UUUpward Unlimited4× · 2019–2023 · $361k · revenue -30%
- NYNASHVILLE YOUTH SPORTS CLUB INC3× · 2017–2019 · $107k · revenue +408%
- CYCOLORADO YOUTH SPORTS CLUB2× · 2017–2018 · $68k · 39% of their budget
Funded once
- GSGAINESVILLE SPORTS CLUB INCone grant, 2017 · $80k · 35% of their budget
- SSSTARS SPORTS CLUBone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -89%
- KBKENTUCKY BAPTIST CONVENTIONone grant, 2022 · $8k
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.
6 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. 6 of the 7 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Upward Unlimited Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Upward Unlimited Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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