· Public charity
USA Football Inc
Usa football's mission is to lead, strengthen and grow football for all.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $74,590 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,932,008 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,857,418 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAHAINA CHIEFS | $13,470 |
| LAHAINALUNA HIGH SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| PALOS VERDES YOUTH FOOTBALL AND CHEER - PV FLAG FOOTBALL | $10,671 |
| THE CONNECTICUT FLAG FOOTBALL LEAGUE | $9,164 |
| FORT WAYNE POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE | $7,270 |
| SOUTHEAST BRONX YOUTH COALITION INC | $6,500 |
| DEFOREST AREA YOUTH FOOTBALL LEAGUE | $5,711 |
| SIMI VALLEY BULLDOGS - GCYFL | $5,500 |
| PALS OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $5,304 |
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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k 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
- MXMalcolm X Shabazz High School2× · 2019–2021 · $20k
- POPALS OF OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $19k
- YSYOUTH SPORTS FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $18k · revenue -5%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONone grant, 2018 · $130k
- CCCHICAGO CONNECTEDone grant, 2023 · $23k
- SPST PETERS PREPARATORY SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $17k
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.
Sports/recreation for children
Youth football
Youth sports program
The organization provides football training for kid between the ages of 8 and 12. This includes practices and games.
Development of good citizenship, team work and fair play via youth sports
Youth football and cheerleading
Provide youth football and cheerleading programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Simi Valley Bulldogs Football & Cheer and the most unlike its peers is Scorpions Elite. 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 14 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 25% of your grantees by number, and just 22% of your money.
The orgs you fund close more than the field — 17% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
16 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. 16 of the 44 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 PALS OF OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PALOS VERDES YOUTH FOOTBALL AND CHEER INC ↗
- Who funds POP WARNER LITTLE SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Flag Football League Inc ↗
- Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF FORT WAYN ↗
- Who funds LIHUE POP WARNER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SPRING BRANCH-MEMORIAL SPORTS ASSOC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY FOOTBALL AND CHEERLEADING INC ↗
- Who funds DEFOREST AREA YOUTH FOOTBALL LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds OZARKS FOOTBALL LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds SIMI VALLEY BULLDOGS FOOTBALL & CHEER ↗
- Who funds Scorpions Elite ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Good Sports Inc · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Southern Poverty Law Center Inc · Round It Up America Inc · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Share Our Strength · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 USA Football Inc 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.