Virginia · Nonprofit
UNITED STATES ORIENTEERING FEDERATION
UNITED STATES ORIENTEERING FEDERATION (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,059 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($171,226). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $271k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $181k
- Net assets
- $532k
What United States Orienteering Federation does
Mission
Our mission is: (1) increase participation in the sport. (2) teach map reading and navigation skills. (3) promote enjoyment of, and respect for, the environment. (4) establish world-class competitive excellence within our national team programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Members and clubs services - sanctioned 24 national orienteering races. Provided procedures, rules and guidelines for clubs to host over 49,000 competitive starts. Provided liability insurance for landowners for over 760 events. Provided national rankings for members who competed in at least 4 races. Sent publication with all national events covered to all members. Provided event registration system online for all member clubs. Paid for a national lifelox subscription available to all competitors. Maintained website for public and member information and education. Provided instructional materials and program brochures for public education. Provided local clubs with procedures and materials for public education. Provided coaching certification and materials for club and public consumption.
$73,056 spent$173,750 earned by the program43% of program spendingInternational teams for competitions - competition services for men's and women's national teams who competed internationally in foot-o, mbto, and ski-o. In some events, male and female junior teams competed. Registrations, coaching, and partial travel costs were paid for competitors and coaches. Committees selected team members and provided support for them.
$55,021 spent32% of program spendingYouth mapping program - provided mapping services to schools and youth organizations to make maps of schools and local parks. Released 13 maps produced for outside youth organizations.
$6,652 spent$6,457 earned by the program4% of program spendingOther programs
$36,094 spentof which $30,642 as grants$145 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $170,823.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $398k to $456k (+15%).
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.
29% of UNITED STATES ORIENTEERING FEDERATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $69k → $117.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 UNITED STATES ORIENTEERING FEDERATION’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 ORIENTEERING FEDERATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ORIENTEERING FEDERATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 52% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of UNITED STATES ORIENTEERING FEDERATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $200 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $181k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 ORIENTEERING FEDERATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like UNITED STATES ORIENTEERING FEDERATION
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- United States Orienteering Federation Endowment Fund Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED STATES ORIENTEERING FEDERATION?
- UNITED STATES ORIENTEERING FEDERATION (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,059 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($171,226). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITED STATES ORIENTEERING FEDERATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $181,059 in grants to UNITED STATES ORIENTEERING FEDERATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED STATES ORIENTEERING FEDERATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $171,226 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED STATES ORIENTEERING FEDERATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 4 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