Grants for swimming clubs

Name: Top 25 grants made to swimming leagues and clubs
Creator: Cause IQ
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431 swimming leagues and clubs received at least $725,090 in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 385 grants made from 278 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,000. Of these 278 foundations, 86% made just a single grant to swimming clubs, and 3% made grants to four or more swimming clubs. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$725,090

Total grant dollars given to swimming clubs

385

Number of grants made annually to swimming clubs

278

Number of grantmakers funding swimming clubs

$1,000

Median grant size to swimming clubs

Foundations that support swimming leagues and clubs

Out of all grants made to swimming clubs, 72% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 16% of the dollar-value of grants to swimming clubs. Foundations funding swimming clubs also made grants to animal shelters, food banks, boys and girls clubs, homeless shelters, and high schools.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	202
Medium	38
Large	37

Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.

Foundation type

Foundation type	Number of grantmakers
Community	13
Private	217
Corporate	23
Other	25

Grants made

Grants made to swimming clubs	Number of grantmakers
1	241
2-3	27
4-10	7
11+	3

Top 10 foundations supporting swimming leagues and clubs

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to swimming clubs	Number of grants made to swimming clubs	Median grant size
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT)	TN	Metro	0.0%	22	$750
Baird Foundation	WI	National	0.1%	12	$225
Carmax Foundation	VA	National	0.0%	12	$175
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.0%	8	$225
Salesforce Com Foundation	CA	National	0.0%	7	$100
Seattle Foundation	WA	State	0.0%	6	$2,750
Chubb Charitable Foundation	PA	National	0.0%	6	$90
LPL Financial Foundation	MA	National	0.1%	5	$500
USA Swimming Foundation	CO	National	1.3%	4	$5,000
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)	NJ	National	0.0%	4	$750

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Swimming leagues and clubs grantees

Swimming clubs with more than $5 million in total revenues received 3% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 3% of all swimming clubs.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	385
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	0

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$1,900
$100k-$500k	$1,000
$500k-$1M	$2,000
$1M-$5M	$1,000
>$5M	$1,000

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
California	44
Tennessee	36
Massachusetts	33
Virginia	25
Other	247

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
Nashville	35
Boston	19
Providence	18
Los Angeles	17
Other	246

Top 25 grants made to swimming clubs

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
West Beaver Township Veterans Memorial Pool	$5,000	Capital Improvements	The Lozier Foundation
Fox Valley Wave Swim Team Incorporated	$5,000	Charitable	Deitrich Family Foundation
Youth Sailing Virginia	$5,000	Learn To Swim To Sail Program	Alice B Glasheen Memorial Trust
Sarasota County Croquet Club	$5,000	General Operations	D R Long Foundation
Marin Rowing Association	$5,000	Educational	Stearns Charitable Trust
Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center	$5,000	Operatingsupport	Charles P Ferro Foundation
Mission Valley Aquatics	$5,000	Sponsorship Grant	Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana
Loyola Blakefield Aquatics	$5,000	General Support	Migliara Family Foundation
USA Water Polo	$5,000	Operating Support	The Rose Hills Foundation
Geneva Lake Sailing School	$5,000	General	Cedar Street Charitable Foundation
Duxbury Bay Maritime School (DBMS)	$5,000	To Support the Maritime Adventures Programto Support the Maritime Adventures Program	Boston Marine Society
Sail Salem	$5,000	Expand Student Reach Program	Boston Marine Society
Bayou Civic Club	$5,000	Donor Directed Donation	Bayou Community Foundation
North Pole Aquatic Club	$5,000	Newport Opera House	Sand Family Fund
Youngstown Junior Sailing Foundation	$5,000	Unrestricted Use	Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo (CFGB)
Buffalo City Swim Racers	$5,000	Make A Splash Program	USA Swimming Foundation
Dad's Club Aquatic Center	$5,000	Make A Splash Program	USA Swimming Foundation
Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center	$5,000	Make A Splash Program	USA Swimming Foundation
Fort Worth Drowning Prevention Coalition	$5,000	Make A Splash Program	USA Swimming Foundation
Swimming Pool Education and Safety Foundation	$5,000	FMV	Florida Swimming Pool Association
Swimming Pool Education and Safety Foundation	$5,000	To Help Support Pool Education To the General Public.	Florida Swimming Pool Association
Galveston Island Swim Team	$5,000	To Assist Local 501(c)(3) Entities	Harris and Eliza Kempner Fund
Denver City Lax	$5,000	General Purpose	Owen Charitable Foundation
Louisiana Splash and Water Safety	$5,000	Program Allocation	St John United Way
The Gift of Swimming	$5,000	Unrestricted	Boyd Foundation A Not for Profit Corporation

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Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Swimming clubs" category for this page is determined by the "N67: Swimming, Water Recreation" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.