Maryland · Nonprofit
MOVE UNITED
MOVE UNITED (Maryland) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,894,652 to it, the largest being BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($4,641,087). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.0M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What Move United does
Mission
To provide national leadership and opportunities for individuals with disabilities to develop independence, confidence, and fitness through participation in community sports, recreation, and education programs. Our vision is that every person, regardless of ability, has an equal opportunity to participate in sports and recreation in their community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Member services:Move United provides services to its over 245 community-based organizations operated locally in 45 states and the district of columbia, serving 131,000 annually. These services are designed to enable these local adaptive sports organizations to provide safe and effective sports rehabilitation programs for people with disabilities in their communities. Services include: instructor and coach training in adaptive sports; grants to operate programs and purchase adaptive equipment; seminars in program administration, volunteer recruitment and training, marketing, fundraising, and risk management; insurance; promotion of local activities on a national level and other ongoing capacity building and technical assistance.
$1,489,816 spentof which $67,425 as grants$1,132,871 earned by the program18% of program spendingCompetition:nationals - for over 68 years, Move United has conducted an annual national summer sports competition that offers opportunities for athletes of all ages to compete in seven sports including: archery, shooting, para powerlifting, track & field, swimming, triathlon, and wheelchair tennis. This event also provides instructional programs in adaptive summer sports such as tennis and volleyball. In 2025, this event hosted 403 athletes from 33 states and is part of a sanctioned competitions program supported by Move United.
$1,180,088 spentof which $257,805 as grants$49,963 earned by the program15% of program spendingMove United warfighters:offers sports rehabilitation for severely wounded veterans and service members in military hospitals and communities across the u.s. Through a nationwide network of over 245 community-based chapters. Since 1967, move untied has proudly served wounded warriors, including those injured in the iraq and afghanistan wars, offering over 70 winter and summer sports at more than 100 events each year. Move United warfighters rebuilds lives through sports by improving self-confidence, promoting independence and uniting families through shared healthy activities. Contributions cover expenses for participation of the warrior and a family member, including individualized adaptive instruction, adaptive sport equipment, transportation, lodging and meals. Since 2003, more than 21,550 of the most severely wounded and their families have been served, including those with amputations, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, visual impairments, and significant nerve and muscle damage.
$1,117,732 spentof which $854,279 as grants$98,000 earned by the program14% of program spendingAs the nation's leading provider of training in adaptive sport, Move United educated 1,761 coaches, instructors, educators, leaders, and va staff who teach or want to teach sport and recreation people with disabilities in 2025. Offerings include an annual national conference, sport specific trainings across the country, and an online learning management system.ski spectacular:for the past 38 years Move United has held ski spectacular, one of the largest adaptive snow sport festivals in the country. Each year, ski spectacular attracts over 800 participants from over 30 states for a week of activities. This includes training of local ski instructors and coaches in the latest adaptive ski techniques for amputees, spinal and head injured, blind, and those with neuromuscular disabilities like cerebral palsy. It also includes learn-to-ski and snowboard classes; race training clinics for youth, wounded warriors and others; nordic ski training; a race; and chapter development seminars.public awareness:communication of innovations, events, developments and athlete profiles with the general public via our website, social media, newsletters, audio podcast, and our print magazine.
$4,288,594 spentof which $1,543,903 as grants$277,919 earned by the program53% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,076,230.
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 2021 to 2022, from $7.8M to $7.1M (−9%).
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 16% · 2018 19% · 2019 14% · 2021 21% · 2022 14% · 2023 15% · 2024 15% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of MOVE UNITED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Glenn Merry
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Eric Kuwana
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 14 funders, grant income rose $505k → $2.2M.
14 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 MOVE UNITED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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
MOVE UNITED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 MOVE UNITED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 22% · 2019 76% · 2020 19% · 2021 56% · 2022 50% · 2023 39% — growing more concentrated.
“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
29% of MOVE UNITED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
MOVE UNITED draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
MOVE UNITED is better cushioned than half of the 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MOVE UNITED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.4M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$11.4M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MOVE UNITED
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 13 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOVE UNITED: 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 MOVE UNITED?
- MOVE UNITED (Maryland) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,894,652 to it, the largest being BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($4,641,087). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOVE UNITED have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $10,894,652 in grants to MOVE UNITED, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOVE UNITED?
- BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,641,087 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOVE UNITED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 50 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