Tennessee · Nonprofit
UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE
UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE (Tennessee) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,631,232 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS ($1,588,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 64
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What Union Sportsmen's Alliance does
Mission
To unite the union community through conservation to preserve north america's outdoor heritage.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Conservation: activities that foster appreciation, and aid in the preservation, of hunting and fishing traditions: usa hosts a series of events in which members and the general public participate in hunting and fishing related activities. Usa also sponsors a conservation program that utilizes its members skills and other volunteers to implement conservation improvements to the fish and wildlife habitats and/or improve the publics access to fish and wildlife habitats at various locations across the united states.
$896,105 spent34% of program spendingEducation and communication: usa hosts a website and a magazine that is published quarterly to communicate to its members and public regarding (I) its conservation activities; (ii) educational material about hunting and fishing; (iii) the importance of preserving the united states hunting and fishing heritage. Such communications include stories about usa conservation projects, stories about members hunting and fishing experiences. The communications also function as a resource for members to come together and share their enthusiasm for the preservation of hunting and fishing traditions.
$829,321 spent32% of program spendingTelevision show: usa sponsors a television show, "brotherhood outdoors", which celebrates hardworking union sportsmen and women from around the country. The television show spotlights usa members and their efforts to improve their communities, promote conservation, and preserve hunting and fishing traditions.
$308,434 spent12% of program spendingMembership services: the usa has 19 charter and affiliated unions and over 280,000 members including individual charter, non-charter and non-union members. Membership services expenses include the direct costs of providing goods and services to existing members and expenses to foster awareness of the various programs, services and events offered by the usa, the usa's overall mission and to promote the continued growth of the usa as a whole.
$565,850 spentof which $20,598 as grants$1,415,375 earned by the program22% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,599,710.
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 2018 to 2019, from $6.4M to $5.1M (−20%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 8% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% 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.
Chief executive
Walter Ingram
CEO & executive director
Board chair
Kinsey Robinson
Chairman and director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $349k → $852k.
1 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $2.1M from 15 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations). These are real filings, and they are not money UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE raised.
From the IRS filings of UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 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
UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
99% 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 UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 45% · 2019 34% · 2020 31% · 2021 33% · 2022 32% · 2023 30% — 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
55% of UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $156 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE is better cushioned than half of the 2,187 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35k on record.
- Department of the Interior$35k
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 UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE?
- UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE (Tennessee) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,631,232 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS ($1,588,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $5,631,232 in grants to UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE?
- INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS is the largest funder on record, with $1,588,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 64 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