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SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC

SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 910 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,021,261 to it, the largest being Lions Clubs International Foundation ($15,937,717). 407 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$186M
Revenue FY2024
910
Funders on record
$69M
Grants received
$139M
Net assets
407/910 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%

Against its field

SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 22 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve3.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22 recreation & sports nonprofits over $100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($129M) Expenses 100 ($111M) Net assets 100 ($80M)2018 Revenue 105 ($136M) Expenses 117 ($130M) Net assets 107 ($85M)2019 Revenue 105 ($136M) Expenses 115 ($128M) Net assets 116 ($93M)2020 Revenue 98 ($126M) Expenses 99 ($110M) Net assets 137 ($110M)2021 Revenue 115 ($148M) Expenses 114 ($126M) Net assets 166 ($133M)2022 Revenue 107 ($138M) Expenses 128 ($142M) Net assets 159 ($127M)2023 Revenue 118 ($152M) Expenses 145 ($161M) Net assets 150 ($120M)2024 Revenue 144 ($186M) Expenses 152 ($169M) Net assets 173 ($139M)
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Revenue (144)Expenses (152)Net assets (173)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 12% · 2018 15% · 2019 19% · 2020 19% · 2021 24% · 2022 28% · 2023 31% · 2024 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

92% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (5% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$18M
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$5.6M
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$7.5M
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$16M
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$22M
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$4.0M
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$8.3M
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$18M
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3.3
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reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 191 funders to 258 funders, grant income rose $4.7M → $7.7M.

57 of 910 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $3.3M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Special Olympics Inc); $250k from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Goldberg Family Foundation Inc 67-48576810). These are real filings, and they are not money SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC raised.

From the IRS filings of SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 910 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

SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

72% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC.

23%
largest funder
46%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 40% · 2019 25% · 2020 19% · 2021 25% · 2022 23% · 2023 24%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

26% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 48 states in all.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 910 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $399.5M on record.

Federal$399.5M
grants $399.5Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$260.7M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$138.2M
  • Department of State$628k

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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS 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 Washington, D.C.

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 4%Fundraising 11%

Governance

37
board members
92%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

93%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 51 states

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Part of a family of 7 related entities

  • Special Olympics Asia Pacific (Ltd) · disregarded
  • Christmas Records Trust · disregarded
  • So Europe Eurasia (Soee) Foundation · exempt
  • Special Olympics Entertainment Corporation · exempt
  • Special Olympics Community Services Ltd · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPECIAL OLYMPICS 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC?
SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 910 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,021,261 to it, the largest being Lions Clubs International Foundation ($15,937,717). 407 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC have?
IRS filings report 910 organizations giving $69,021,261 in grants to SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC, 407 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC?
Lions Clubs International Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $15,937,717 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 910funders 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 September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing