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USA Hockey Inc

Colorado Springs, CO · EIN 51-0204742. Reported 136 grants totalling $16.5M to 35 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

35organizations funded
$39,741median reported grant
$16.5Mgranted, 2020-2023
97%of grantees funded again the next year
29%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For USA Hockey Inc, the IRS classifies it under recreation & sports rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE N80) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 35 distinct organizations, with 29% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 97% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $39,741. Half of what it reported fell between $17,023 and $93,135; the smallest was $5,928 and the largest $1,277,748. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
17 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
37 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
21 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
29 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
16 grants
$250,000 Or More
16 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
US Hockey LeagueChicago, IL$4,831,560542023
College Hockey IncWinthrop, MA$2,475,000442023
North American Hockey LeagueDallas, TX$2,121,600542023
National Hockey LeagueNew York, NY$1,313,595442023
Serving the American RinksColorado Spgs, CO$500,000442023
USA Hockey FoundationColorado Spgs, CO$500,000112022
Minnesota Hockey IncSaint Paul, MN$494,140542023
Massachusetts Hockey IncDuxbury, MA$400,618442023
New York State Amateur Hockey Association IncAmherst, NY$391,088442023
Michigan Amateur Hockey AssociationClinton Twp, MI$370,260442023
Mid American District Hockey IncMonongahela, PA$354,217442023
Mid Atlantic Amateur Hockey AssociationRidgewood, NJ$330,487442023
New England Yankee Hockey Conference IncNorth Haven, CT$268,102442023
Amateur Hockey Assoc Illinois IncRoscoe, IL$267,074442023
California Amateur Hockey AssociationLivermore, CA$250,191442023
Potomac Valley Amateur Hockey Association IncTowson, MD$194,501442023
Wisconsin Amateur Hockey Association IncMequon, WI$163,361442023
State Wide Amateur Hockey of Florida IncParkland, FL$159,426442023
USA Hockey IncFrisco, TX$152,653442023
USA Hockey IncDenver, CO$136,430442023
Pacific Northwest Amateur Hockey AssociationRichland, WA$90,260442023
Southern Amateur Hockey AssociationNashville, TN$90,031442023
Carolina Amateur Hockey Association IncRaleigh, NC$84,580442023
Missouri Hockey IncSt Louis, MO$82,194442023
USA Hockey IncScottsdale, AZ$80,502442023
Alaska State Hockey Association IncAnchorage, AK$72,082442023
Mid-West Amateur Hockey AssociationDavenport, IA$64,272442023
North Dakota Amateur Hockey AssociationRugby, ND$56,256442023
American Collegiate Hockey Association IncTroy, MI$50,000112022
Montana Amateur Hockey Association IncBillings, MT$46,467442023
Utah Hockey An Amateur AssociationAlpine, UT$36,824442023
Idaho Amateur Hockey Association IncKetchum, ID$35,581442023
Nevada Amateur Hockey AssociationLas Vegas, NV$34,972442023
South Dakota Amateur Hockey AssociationWatertown, SD$24,188442023
USA Hockey IncSpringfield, OR$19,736332023

33 of 35 (94%) 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 23 of 35 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.

Recreation & Sports
20 orgs
Community Improvement
1 org
Youth Development
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202036$3,893,960$40,244
202133$3,872,670$40,002
202234$4,344,935$37,690
202333$4,430,683$42,515

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

31% of its giving went to organizations in Illinois. 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.

Illinois
$5.1M
Massachusetts
$2.9M
Texas
$2.3M
New York
$1.7M
Colorado
$1.1M
Minnesota
$494K
Michigan
$420K
Pennsylvania
$354K

Down to the city

Chicago, IL
$4.8M
Winthrop, MA
$2.5M
Dallas, TX
$2.1M
New York, NY
$1.3M
Colorado Spgs, CO
$1.0M
Saint Paul, MN
$494K

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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.

USA Hockey Foundation15 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc2 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $39,741 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Illinois.
  4. 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.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from USA Hockey Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 31 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 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: 1775 Bob Johnson Drive, Colorado Springs, CO, 80906.

EIN 51-0204742 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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