Colorado · Nonprofit
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WRESTLING
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WRESTLING (Colorado) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,821,818 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE ($14,539,561). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $20M
What United States of America Wrestling does
Mission
Usa wrestling, guided by the olympic spirit, provides quality opportunities for its members to achieve their full human and athletic potential.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
National teams programs:provided opportunities for more than two hundred seventy athletes, on the u15, u17, u20, u23, veterans and olympic levels, plus support staff, to participate in approximately ninety plus international tours, training camps, and/or tournaments. Assisted with the training expenses for more than one hundred wrestlers on the senior level national teams and an additional fifty plus highly ranked senior level wrestlers who performed well in various competitions.
$7,578,166 spentof which $858,204 as grants$1,658,432 earned by the program42% of program spendingMembership/state services:provided medical and liability insurance to cover approximately 315,300 wrestlers, 56,630 wrestling leaders, 5,950 wrestling clubs and 2,720 wrestling events. Provided funds and instructional material to state organizations and member clubs. Provided organizational information via the website and newsletters to promote knowledge of and opportunities to participate in the sport. Offered members access to usa bracketing, a comprehensive tournament management software. Members created, customized, and managed sports brackets effortlessly with real-time updates, detailed stats, and seamless user experience in approximately 791 events spread across all 50 states with over 300,000 accounts in the system.
$6,764,968 spentof which $12,500 as grants$14,488,211 earned by the program37% of program spendingEvents and educational programs:provide opportunities to our 315,300 members of 14u (uww u15), 16u (uww u17), juniors (uww u20), uww u23s, veterans and olympic level to compete in approximately forty international-, national-, and regional-level events. Also coordinated sports science research regarding wrestling and educational programs available to our 56,630 wrestling leaders.
$3,677,229 spent$5,576,368 earned by the program20% of program spendingPromotions/sport development/broadcasting:provided services, production, promotion, coordination and other expenses to increase media and public exposure and familiarity with the sport of wrestling and to encourage participation. Promoted the sport by planning and promoting travel for wrestling fans and wrestler families to the belgrade world championships in september 2023, and to the paris olympic games in july-august 2024.
$55,228 spentof which $50,838 as grants$550 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,075,591.
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 2023 to 2024, from $19M to $25M (+30%).
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: 2021 5% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WRESTLING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (11% 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
Richard S Bender
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $2.3M.
9 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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: $93k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United States Wrestling Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WRESTLING raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WRESTLING’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.
How concentrated its funding is
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WRESTLING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WRESTLING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 99% · 2019 95% · 2020 81% · 2021 92% · 2022 74% · 2023 76% — 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
56% of UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WRESTLING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
98% of UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WRESTLING's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WRESTLING runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 303 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 303 recreation & sports nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WRESTLING
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WRESTLING?
- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WRESTLING (Colorado) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,821,818 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE ($14,539,561). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WRESTLING have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $16,821,818 in grants to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WRESTLING, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WRESTLING?
- UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE is the largest funder on record, with $14,539,561 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WRESTLING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 16 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