Pool & Hot Tub Foundation
Alexandria, VA · EIN 52-6081248. Reported 56 grants totalling $1,713,766 to 47 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 47 distinct organizations, with 23% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 25% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $9,500. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $18,500; the smallest was $5,250 and the largest $400,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stew Leonard III Water Safety Foundation Inc | Norwalk, CT | $400,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Foss Swim School | Eden Prairie, MN | $360,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| USA Swimming Foundation | Colorado Springs, CO | $240,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rosen Aquatic and Fitness Center Inc | Orlando, FL | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Michael Phelps Foundation | Litchfield Pk, AZ | $66,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| International Swimming Hall of Fame Inc | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $58,469 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Dr Charles Van Der Horst Water Safety Initiative | Durham, NC | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hope Floats Foundation-Swim Safari | Jacksonville, FL | $34,360 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rose Bowl Aquatics Center | Pasadena, CA | $31,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| V3 Sports Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Little Aquatics Swim Lessons | Orlando, FL | $19,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Central Florida Young Mens Christian Association | Orlando, FL | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Southern West Virginia Inc | Beckley, WV | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Volusiaflagler Family Young Mens Christian Association Inc | Deland, FL | $10,400 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Camp Wildwood | Hampton, SC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City of El Monte Ca | El Monte, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City of Gonzales Ca | Gonzalez, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Clearwater for Youth Inc | Clearwater, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Foundation for Blind Children | Phoenix, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jones Center for Families Inc | Springdale, AR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Young Mens Christian Assn of La Porte Indiana | La Porte, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wilson Family Young Mens Christian Association | Wilson, NC | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Aquachamps Swim School | Oakland Park, FL | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Abbeys Hope Charitable Foundation | Edina, MN | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Central Connecticut Coast Young Mens Christian Association Inc | New Haven, CT | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Harris County One for All Foundation | Houston, TX | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kiwanis International Inc | Wilmington, OH | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Paragon Pools | Las Vegas, NV | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Watersafe Inc | Flagler Beach, FL | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Boulder Valley | Lafayette, CO | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of South Florida Inc | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 100 Black Men of Jackson Inc | Jackson, MS | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Esf Dream Camp Foundation | Bryn Mawr, PA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nseaswim | Wilmington, NC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| North Camden Community Boxing | Camden, NJ | $7,293 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis | Indianapolis, IN | $6,594 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Metropolitan Young Mens Christian Association | Fort Wayne, IN | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Waco Family YMCA | Round Rock, TX | $6,400 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of South Palm Beach County Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $6,400 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bronx House Inc | Bronx, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Carmel Swim Club | Carmel, IN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Judah Brown Project | Cypress, TX | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Safe Kids Worldwide | Silver Spring, MD | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Paragon Pools (float Like a Duck Event) | Las Vegas, NV | $5,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Southwest Washington | Longview, WA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Drowning Prevention Alliance | Leadville, CO | $5,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
8 of 47 (17%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Safe Kids Worldwide
CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE US NATIONAL WATER SAFETY ACTION PLAN
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 31 of 47 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4 | $65,725 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 22 | $394,531 | $8,000 |
| 2023 | 10 | $603,900 | $11,450 |
| 2024 | 20 | $649,610 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
24% of its giving went to organizations in Connecticut. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $9,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Connecticut.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Pool & Hot Tub Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 15 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 5 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1650 King St Ste 602, Alexandria, VA, 22314.
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