Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
UPLIFTING ATHLETES INC
UPLIFTING ATHLETES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $665,551 to it, the largest being Cure VCP Disease Inc ($84,240). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $666k
- Net assets
- $205k
What Uplifting Athletes Inc does
Mission
The mission of uplifting athletes is to harness the power of sport to build a community that invests in lives of people impacted by rare diseases. A vision where no person impacted by rare diseases feels alone and everyone has hope for the future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Rare disease research, uplifting experiences, rare disease awareness, and uplifting leaders
$1,106,200 spent85% of program spendingRaise funds for researchers supporting rare diseases. During the fiscal year ended, grants were committed to pay for research in the amount of 200,000.
$200,000 spentof which $200,000 as grants15% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,306,200.
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 2020 to 2021, from $72k to $345k (+382%).
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 6% · 2021 7% · 2022 5% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of UPLIFTING ATHLETES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Shoshanna Engel-Lewis
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $12k → $155k.
5 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 UPLIFTING ATHLETES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
UPLIFTING ATHLETES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
86% 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 UPLIFTING ATHLETES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 42% · 2019 25% · 2020 39% · 2021 69% · 2022 16% · 2023 13% — 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
45% of UPLIFTING ATHLETES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
UPLIFTING ATHLETES INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
UPLIFTING ATHLETES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UPLIFTING ATHLETES 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
43%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UPLIFTING ATHLETES 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 UPLIFTING ATHLETES INC?
- UPLIFTING ATHLETES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $665,551 to it, the largest being Cure VCP Disease Inc ($84,240). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UPLIFTING ATHLETES INC have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $665,551 in grants to UPLIFTING ATHLETES INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UPLIFTING ATHLETES INC?
- Cure VCP Disease Inc is the largest funder on record, with $84,240 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPLIFTING ATHLETES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 40 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