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Upward Unlimited Foundation

EIN 45-3444045 Spartanburg, SC

Revenue 2022
$478
Expenses 2022
$108,485

Program services were 96.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Street
198 White Star Point

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

To accelerate the mission of Upward Unlimited by creating fundraising opportunities for individuals, institutions, and other non-profits to invest in the Upward Unlimited mission thereby overcoming risks and challenges due to lack of funding.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To accelerate the mission of Upward Unlimited by creating fundraising opportunities.

  • The Foundation supports the mission of Upward Unlimited by creating opportunities for individuals, institutions, corporations, and foundations to invest in the Upward Unlimited mission and vision. As a result the Foundation has helped meet greater needs related to the ministry's purpose of "promoting the discovery of Jesus through sports."

    Expenses $104,352 · Grants $104,352

As filed on the 2022 return.

Officers and directors · 2022

As listed in Part VII of the 2022 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Tully Brewer

    Chairman of Board

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 5 related
  • Bob Caldwell

    Vice Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 5 related
  • Hugh Brantley

    Secretary/Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 5 related
  • David Bishop

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 5 related
  • Courtney Shelton

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 5 related
  • Michael Chibbaro

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 5 related
  • Kevin Drake

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $248,288
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $242,458
    Other
    $5,830
    Hours/week
    5 + 50 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $206,259 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $25,000 related
    Other
    $0 + $11,199 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $5,830 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $248,288 related
  • Amie Busbee

    CFO/Assist Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $155,283
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $143,137
    Other
    $12,146
    Hours/week
    5 + 50 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $141,422 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $1,715 related
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $12,146 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $155,283 related

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2022
    Revenue
    $478
    Expenses
    $108,485
    Contributions
    $478
    Grants paid
    $104,352

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $158,345
    Expenses
    $10,366,339
    Assets (EOY)
    $108,112
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $358,554
    Expenses
    $89,634
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,298,786
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $359,333
    Expenses
    $160,702
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,029,008
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $377,088
    Expenses
    $187,740
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,829,689
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $790,709
    Expenses
    $703,313
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,639,326
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,403,530
    Expenses
    $817,743
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,595,402
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $395,782
    Expenses
    $964,858
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,988,411
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,648,781
    Expenses
    $781,054
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,199,980

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2022 return

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2022 return

  • Upward Enterprises Inc

    C · Promote Upward Unlimited · SC · controlled entity

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2022, the newest we have parsed for this organization.