Ohio · Nonprofit
Columbus United Fencing Club
Columbus United Fencing Club (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,000 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($4,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $93k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $36k
What Columbus United Fencing Club does
Mission
The Columbus United Fencing Club was established to promote European historical fencing and martial arts within the Columbus metropolitan area. Our activities aim to educate individuals about historical martial arts provide a platform for competitive fencing and support community building through various programs. Our programs are designed to cater to a wide audience including marginalized genders fostering inclusivity and representation in the sport. Our activities are primarily funded through class fees tournament entry fees and donations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
CUFC hosted 9 Introductory courses for new fencers introducing over 75 new fencers to the sport.
$9,240 spent11% of program spendingCUFC expanded programming to include a Fundamentals Class in addition other regularly scheduled classes to provide focus for new fencers. CUFC teaches 5 days a week. Over 150 fencers have attended classes this year.
$49,909 spent62% of program spendingCUFC hosted 4 tournaments. Our largest Tournament Lynx Cup had 72 unique participants.
$21,545 spent27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $80,694.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $21k to $36k (+71%).
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.
14% of Columbus United Fencing Club’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Columbus United Fencing Club’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
Where its funders are
Columbus United Fencing Club draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Columbus United Fencing Club has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Columbus United Fencing Club
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Columbus United Fencing Club: 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 Columbus United Fencing Club?
- Columbus United Fencing Club (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,000 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($4,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Columbus United Fencing Club have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $4,000 in grants to Columbus United Fencing Club.
- Who is the largest funder of Columbus United Fencing Club?
- JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Columbus United Fencing Club 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing