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USA Swimming Foundation Inc

Established in 2004, the usa swimming foundation works to strengthen the sport of swimming by saving lives, building champions, and impacting communities whether providing grant funding to members of our lesson provider network, supporting the dreams of national team members, or growing the sport in traditionally underserved populations,…

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
24
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$14MHuman Services$416kYouth Development$140kEducation$52kHealth$26kPhilanthropy$23kAnimals$17kCrime & Legal$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 45 grants below total $1,847,124, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,272,835 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $425,711 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k31 grants · $237k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $161k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.4M
$8,000
Median grant
24
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
usa swimming inc$1,449,824
YMCA of the North$25,000
Houston Independent School Distict$18,000
Independent School District 283$15,000
YMCA of Greater Houston Area$11,500
North Shore Swim Club$11,000
Foss Swim School$10,000
The Boys Club of New York$10,000
Valley of the Sun YMCA$10,000
Safe Swim$10,000
Lawrence Boys and Girls Club$10,000
Whitewater Aquatics Management$10,000
Trident Swim Foundation Inc$10,000
Childrens Safety Village of Central Florida$10,000
Swim Strong Foundation$9,800
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Valley of the Sun YMCA: $34k → 11%South Shore YMCA: $13k → 7%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $10k → 8%Attleboro Norton YMCA: $18k → 11%BRANDYWINE YMCA: $13k → 6%YMCA of San Francisco: $13k → 10%YMCA of Kingston and Ulster Counties: $11k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON: $40k → 14%YMCA of Greater Montgomery: $15k → 18%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $15k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $10k → 10%South Sound YMCA: $25k → 9%YMCA of Southwest WA: $10k → 13%YMCA OF MADISON NEW JERSEY: $10k → 4%Raritan Valley YMCA: $10k → 8%Hamilton Area YMCA: $13k → 11%YMCA of Greater Louisville: $15k → 15%Valley of the Sun YMCA: $10k → 11%YMCA OF DELAWARE: $10k → 10%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $25k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON: $31k → 14%YMCA OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $15k → 13%YMCA of Montgomery: $10k → 18%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $15k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $10k → 17%YMCA of Southwest WA: $10k → 13%YMCA of Greater Louisville: $13k → 15%YMCA GREATER TWIN CITIES: $20k → 11%YWCA OF OAHU: $13k → 9%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $14k → 15%YMCA of the Triangle Inc: $16k → 8%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $15k → 11%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $48k → 16%YMCA of Eastern Union County: $10k → 10%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $46k → 16%YMCA of Eastern Union County: $10k → 10%YMCA of the North Shore: $12k → 10%YMCA OF NORTH SHORE: $10k → 10%YMCA of Greater Houston: $33k → 16%YMCA of Greater Seattle: $10k → 9%YMCA OF CHICAGO: $21k → 14%YMCA of the North Shore: $10k → 10%YMCA of Greater Houston Area: $29k → 16%YMCA OF METRO CHICAGO: $16k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON: $15k → 16%YMCA of Greater Houston Area: $12k → 16%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $25k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $12k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 80 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

80 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 56 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
399

Total granted

$12M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+49%

Still filing today

79%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

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Recreation & SportsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • US
    USA Swimming Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $9.2M · revenue +32%
  • HC
    HARRIS COUNTY ONE FOR ALL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $228k · revenue +85% · 77% of their budget
  • WS
    WALTER SCHROEDER AQUATIC CENTER LTD
    5× · 2019–2023 · $58k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • SS
    SOUTH SOUND YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +4%
  • EH
    Englewood Health Dept
    one grant, 2021 · $18k
  • AY
    ATTLEBORO YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue +52%
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Hamburg Swim Club

Hamburg Swim Club offers a progressive, levelled swim program for youths ages 4 and up. We provide opportunities for skills development and competitive performance. We promote the development of life skills through the sport of swimming in…

Recreation & Sports
2
Radnor Aquatic Club Inc

The Radnor Aquatic Club is a partnership of swimmers, parents and coaches whose main objective is to build a foundation and genuine positive attitude towards the sport of swimming on all levels ranging from the developmental swimmer to the…

Recreation & Sports
3
Clinton Swim Club

To practice and develop the amateur sport of competitive swimming for children ages 5-20.

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4
Charter Oak Aquatic Club Inc

A community dedicated to maintaining a positive, structured and balanced environment as it supports its athlete members in the pursuit of excellence in the sport of swimming.

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5
Union Township Swim Club Corp
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6
St Croix Swim Club

St. Croix Swim Club is a year-round competitive swim team offering professional coaching for the novice through highly experienced swimmer. Our goal is to promote the sport of swimming and encourage each swimmer to set goals and strive…

Recreation & Sports
7
Canyons Aquatic Club

Competitive age swimming from ages 5 to 18 years of age. affiliated with scs & uss swimming. provide instruction, meets and support swimmers at national meets.

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8
Walnut Creek Aquabears Swim Team

Provide competitive swim instruction to children ages 5 to 19. Instruction is after school and on weekends. Swimmers compete in local, regional, and national meets. Walnut Creek Aquabears is a member club of USA Swimming, our sport's…

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9
Bellevue Swim Club

This is a sports service club focusing on swimming. the club has organized lessons and swim meets. to provide techical training competitive opportunities and safety instruction for young persons and future athletes.

Recreation & Sports
10
Jersey Village Stars Swim Team Inc
Recreation & Sports
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The Aquakids Inc

Competive aquatics program

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12
Rams Swim Club

The Rams Swim Club is a USA affiliated swim club designed to be a feeder program for the local high school. We teach kids how to be safe in and around the water and help them become competitive swimmers

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dad's Club Aquatic Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is All Sports for all People Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

330 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 330 of the 501 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
123
Early backer (in before they grew)
313/330
Grantees still filing
264/330
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

USA Swimming Inc: $9,247,907 · Recreation & SportsUSA Swimming Inc+61 more: $956,560 · Recreation & Sports+61 moreHouston Independent Sch Dist: $81,800 · OtherHouston Ind…YMCA of the North: $74,648 · OtherYMCA of the…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $47,500 · Other+84 more: $1,142,992 · Other+84 moreYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $251,785 · Human ServicesYoung Men…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $85,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN…Valley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association: $50,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $44,000 · Human ServicesThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $43,825 · Human ServicesYMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $40,605 · Human Services+32 more: $554,670 · Human Services+32 moreLAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $24,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHWEST SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC: $21,875 · Youth DevelopmentINSPIRATIONAL TRIATHLON RACING INTERNATIONAL CORP: $13,032 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Clubs of Deep East Texas: $12,125 · Youth DevelopmentMERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $8,800 · Youth DevelopmentTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $21,450 · EducationLEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS IN PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,300 · EducationNORTHERN TRIBS SWIMMING INC: $8,750 · EducationHAWKEN SCHOOL: $7,925 · EducationYoung Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati: $28,725 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS of POOL INC: $23,000 · Environment
Recreation & Sports$10,204,467Other$1,346,940Human Services$1,069,885Youth Development$100,332Education$48,425Philanthropy$28,725Environment$23,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUSA Swimming Inc: $9,247,907 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $251,785 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHARRIS COUNTY ONE FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $228,397 over 7y, 77% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWALTER SCHROEDER AQUATIC CENTER LTD: $57,925 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $47,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetV3 SPORTS INC: $46,185 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $44,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $43,825 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $40,605 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES: $38,015 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EASTERN UNION COUNTY: $35,390 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $31,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Shore Young Men's Christian Association: $30,790 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SAN ANTONIO: $30,106 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWHITEWATER AQUATICS MANAGEMENT: $30,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati: $28,725 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDAD'S CLUB AQUATIC CENTER INC: $28,437 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetthe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc: $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHunterdon County YMCA: $26,358 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MADISON NJ: $25,050 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH SOUND YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRIDENT SWIM FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetSWIM STRONG FOUNDATION INC: $24,600 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetLAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $24,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $23,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS of POOL INC: $23,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNILE SWIM CLUB OF YEADON: $22,900 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetDOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS: $22,800 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetRARITAN VALLEY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION A NJ NON PROFIT CORPORATION: $22,335 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHolland Community Aquatic Center Foundation: $22,250 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHWEST SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC: $21,875 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $21,450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $20,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YMCA OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHAMILTON AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $19,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RIVERBROOK REGIONAL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $18,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetATTLEBORO YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATI OF KINGSTON AND ULSTER COUNTY: $17,900 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSUMMERVILLE FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $16,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE: $16,120 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $15,860 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOLYOKE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $15,782 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION of Georgia's Piedmont Inc: $15,700 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $15,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCHESTER SWIM CLUB ORCAS: $15,425 over 2y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

National Council of Y…USA Swimming IncThe Redwoods Group Fo…Pool & Hot Tub Founda…National Recreation a…North Carolina Allian…Pacific Swimming IncParkinson's Foundatio…Pnc FoundationFamily Health Initiat…Good Sports IncYoung Men's Christian…
National Council of YMCAs of the USAIL86.5× affinity70 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Council of YMCAs of the USA · USA Swimming Inc · The Redwoods Group Foundation Inc · Pool & Hot Tub Foundation · National Recreation and Park Association · North Carolina Alliance of Ymcas · Pacific Swimming Inc · Parkinson's Foundation Inc · Pnc Foundation · Family Health Initiatives Inc · Good Sports Inc · Young Men's Christian Association of San Francisco

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization USA Swimming Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from USA Swimming Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership Inc: 17% of income from government
  • The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Ymca of the North Shore Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Young Men's Christian Association of Madison Nj: 1% of income from government
  • Young Men's Christian Association of Delaware: 1% of income from government
  • West Suburban Young Men's Christian Association: 0% of income from government
  • The Riverbrook Regional Young Men's Christian Association Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 501 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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