Ohio · Nonprofit
BUDDY UP FOR LIFE INC
BUDDY UP FOR LIFE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $733,255 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($270,873). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $686k
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $733k
- Net assets
- $690k
What Buddy Up for Life Inc does
Mission
Buddy up for life, inc. Exists to provide individuals with down syndrome the opportunity to learn and play tennis and to engage in fitness, social, and educational activities in a structured program with the assistance of role models.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Buddy up for life, inc. Programming consists of regularly scheduled tennis and fitness clinics and summer camps focused on tennis, fitness, social, and educational activities for individuals with down syndrome. In addition the organization teaches tangible life skills necessary for employment, volunteer opportunities, and a sense of independence in adult life.
$541,090 spent$273,716 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $541,090.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $466k to $666k (+43%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 1% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of BUDDY UP FOR LIFE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 19 funders, grant income rose $25k → $127k.
13 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BUDDY UP FOR LIFE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BUDDY UP FOR LIFE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
91% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BUDDY UP FOR LIFE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 65% · 2019 49% · 2020 35% · 2021 39% · 2022 46% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
27% of BUDDY UP FOR LIFE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
70% of BUDDY UP FOR LIFE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $216k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $517k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BUDDY UP FOR LIFE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 8,464 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,464 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BUDDY UP FOR LIFE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUDDY UP FOR LIFE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BUDDY UP FOR LIFE INC?
- BUDDY UP FOR LIFE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $733,255 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($270,873). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BUDDY UP FOR LIFE INC have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $733,255 in grants to BUDDY UP FOR LIFE INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUDDY UP FOR LIFE INC?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $270,873 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUDDY UP FOR LIFE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 37 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing