Colorado · Nonprofit
USA Triathlon Foundation
USA Triathlon Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,405,415 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,132,350). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What USA Triathlon Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the USA Triathlon Foundation is to support and promote triathlon, and open pathways to triathlon to those whom it might not otherwise be possible.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
High Performance: The USA Triathlon Foundation's Ignite Olympic and Paralympic Dreams program provides financial support, resources, and opportunities to development and elite triathletes, including our paratriathletes, that are pursuing national and international competition. The program helps athletes overcome barriers to achieving their performance goals by providing grants and support that contribute to sustained excellence at the highest levels of the sport. Through this investment, the Foundation helps strengthen the pipeline of U.S. athletes representing the country on the Olympic and Paralympic stage.
$1,094,572 spentof which $1,027,246 as grants66% of program spendingYouth: The USA Triathlon Foundation's Youth program expands access to multisport opportunities for children and young athletes nationwide. Through grants and community support, the program helps develop youth-focused coaches, clubs, schools, and events that provide training opportunities, equipment, and resources. These efforts introduce young athletes to the benefits of swim-bike-run while supporting the development of the next generation of multisport athletes, coaches, and leaders.
$313,552 spentof which $298,135 as grants19% of program spendingOther: Philanthropy also empowers USA Triathlon to act with agility, whether expanding programs for development athletes beyond the NCAA pathway, enhancing daily training environments through investment in assistant coaches, or scaling high-impact initiatives and programs that drive meaningful progress across the sport.
$196,394 spentof which $95,474 as grants$158,520 earned by the program12% of program spendingBelonging and Access: The USA Triathlon Foundation's Belonging and Access program works to expand opportunities for individuals of all backgrounds, abilities, and experiences to participate, grow, and excel in triathlon and multisport. Through initiatives focused on access, inclusion, adaptive athletes, underrepresented communities, and leadership development, the program provides resources that help remove barriers to participation and create pathways for individuals to engage and thrive in the sport.
$60,010 spentof which $20,010 as grants4% of program spendingNCAA: The USA Triathlon Foundation's NCAA Women's Triathlon program supports the growth and sustainability of women's collegiate triathlon programs across the country. Through grants and resources provided to colleges and universities, the program helps institutions establish and maintain NCAA women's triathlon teams while creating opportunities for student-athletes to pursue competitive excellence, academic achievement, and leadership development through the sport.
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,664,528.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.6M to $3.1M (+95%).
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 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of USA Triathlon Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Victoria Brumfield
CEO
Board chair
Brenda Smith
Chair (thru Dec 2025)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 15 funders, grant income rose $6k → $323k.
13 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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: $932k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest USA Triathlon). These are real filings, and they are not money USA Triathlon Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of USA Triathlon Foundation’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
USA Triathlon Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
70% 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 USA Triathlon Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 61% · 2021 36% · 2022 39% · 2023 46% — 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
38% of USA Triathlon Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
70% of USA Triathlon Foundation'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 $716k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
USA Triathlon Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like USA Triathlon Foundation
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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- USA Triathlon · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for USA Triathlon Foundation: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds USA Triathlon Foundation?
- USA Triathlon Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,405,415 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,132,350). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does USA Triathlon Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $2,405,415 in grants to USA Triathlon Foundation, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of USA Triathlon Foundation?
- ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,132,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like USA Triathlon Foundation 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 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