Nathan Adrian USA Swimming Foundation Ambassador and Olympic Gold Medalist A Record Breaking Year: MEDALS to MILESTONES TOM PENNINGTON/GETTY IMAGES PENNINGTON/GETTY TOM annualUSA report SWIMMING 2016 FOUNDATION | 1 MEDALS to MILESTONES 2016 annual report 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome from the Chairman of 2016 Make a Splash Tour 3 the Board and Executive Director 14 Recap About the USA Giving Back: Julie and 2016 By the Numbers Jay Van Cleave 15 Swimming 4 Foundation: The USA Swimming Leadership in Profile: 16 2016 Swim-a-Thon Recap Foundation serves as 5 Greg Rosenbaum the philanthropic arm The Butterfly Effect: Mary T of USA Swimming. 2016 Donor Honor Roll 17 Comes Home Established in 2004, the Foundation works to 6 strengthen the sport by saving lives and building champions—in the pool and in life. Whether 10 An Olympic Year 18 Financials equipping our children with the life-saving skill of learn-to-swim through our Make a Splash 2016 Grant Recipient Profile: Get Involved initiative, or providing financial support to our 12 Fort Worth Drowning Prevention 19 heroes on the U.S. National Team, the USA Coalition Swimming Foundation aims to provide the 2016 Make a Splash Grant wonderful experience of swimming to kids at all 13 Recipients levels across the country. To learn more, visit: usaswimmingfoundation.org. About the Make a a Splash, the USA Swimming Foundation awareness, and to bring together strategic Splash initiative: partners with learn-to-swim providers and partners to end drowning. To date, more The USA Swimming water safety advocates across the country to than 4.9 million children have received the Foundation’s Make a provide swimming lessons and educate children lifesaving gift of swim lessons through the USA Splash initiative is a and their families on the importance of learning Swimming Foundation Make a Splash Local national child-focused how to swim. The USA Swimming Foundation Partner network, comprised of more than 850 water safety campaign, has invested more than $4.4 million dollars qualified lesson providers across the nation. To which aims to provide the opportunity for every to provide grants to qualified Local Partner learn more, visit: child in America to learn to swim. Through Make learn-to-swim programs, to spread national usaswimmingfoundation.org/makeasplash. 2 | MEDALS to MILESTONES Dear Friends, 33 Olympic Medals, 3 World Records and 7 American Records. FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2016 was a jam-packed year full of fast swimming and exciting events. Olympic Trials in Bill Maxson - Chairman Omaha and the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro kept the country, and the world, focused on Ron Van Pool – Secretary the sport of swimming. Here at home the USA Swimming Foundation saw more than 919,000 Elizabeth Beisel children take part in swim lessons through the Make a Splash Local Partner Network. The swim lessons, the medals – neither would have been possible without your support. We Cecil Gordon are thrilled to share all of our 2016 activities and accomplishments with you, and as you can Paris Jacobs see, the USA Swimming Foundation is continuing to support swimmers at every level: from Greg Rosenbaum those just learning to float to those earning medals for the USA. Thanks to partners like you Summer Sanders Schlopy we can truly say that we are saving lives and building champions – in the pool and in life. Dave Wiedercht Here are just some of the accomplishments you helped make a reality in 2016: Jim Wood • Make a Splash, the USA Swimming Foundation’s national child-focused water safety Tim Hinchey – Chief Executive Officer initiative provided $403,000 to support children’s swim lessons, bringing the nine year total to $4.1 million! We continue to make a difference in the lives of families across FOUNDATION STAFF the nation by spreading water safety awareness and helping to get kids into the water, regardless of their ability to pay. In addition, we created a nationwide PSA featuring Debbie Hesse – Executive Director Missy Franklin and her mom that aired more than 60,000 times on more than 400 stations around the country last year. Tina Dessart – Make a Splash Program • The U.S. National Team received more than $620,000 from the USA Swimming Manager Foundation to provide direct athlete support, coach incentives and Junior National Jim Harvey – Chief Financial Officer Team travel. The Olympic team brought home 33 medals from the Rio Olympics and Jill Johnson – Foundation Coordinator continued to demonstrate dominance in the pool. Shweta Shreyarthi - Make a Splash • The USA Swimming Foundation provided $120,000 to club development to support Program Coordinator grassroots programming. With an emphasis on coach education, Foundation funding supported such vital programming as Women’s Leadership Conferences, a National Age Kristina Stockburger – Foundation Group Coaches Summit, and several regional Coaches Clinics. Projects Manager Scott Usher – Director of Major Gifts As a 2016 USA Swimming Foundation donor we want to say a big thank you for helping to Nicole Wilson – Annual Fund Manager support the achievements of our Olympians, new swimmers, and the sport as a whole. Your contributions have helped the USA Swimming Foundation make great strides towards our mission to “save lives and build champions – in the pool and in life.” We hope you’ll read our FOUNDATION ATHLETE AMBASSADORS annual report to further learn about the activities of the Foundation and meet some of the many people who have given their time, energy, and resources to support this sport we love! Nathan Adrian Thank you! Elizabeth Beisel Missy Franklin Sincerely, Rowdy Gaines Cullen Jones Chase Kalisz Jason Lezak Bill Maxson Debbie Hesse Simone Manuel Board Chair Executive Director Mel Stewart USA Swimming Foundation USA Swimming Foundation P.S. 2017 has started off strong and we are so appreciative of your continued support. If you haven’t yet, please make a donation this year and to ensure that 2017 is our most successful year supporting swim lessons and our World Championship Team! USA SWIMMING FOUNDATION | 3 Giving Back: JULIE AND JAY VAN CLEAVE ROSENBAUM t’s a curious truth that so many people Iwho make special things happen in the lives of others don’t view themselves as special at all. In the world of philanthropy, splashy eight-figure donations grab headlines, but there will never be enough of those to ensure sustainable change on a national scale. True impact exists across all giving levels and is dependent on a wide swath of ordinary people doing what they can to contribute in a meaningful way. Enter Julie and Jay Van Cleave. The Wisconsin couple are committed Foundation trustees, a 4-year commitment, in which they give not only their leadership, but also considerable philanthropic support. Champions put Julie and her cohorts through discipline, and to have fun doing it. So we In 2016, they upped the ante by delivering an authentic National Team experience. want there to be more opportunities for more an additional $25,000 matching gift. “We The Van Cleave children, now 29, 26, and families to have that great experience.” had been to Olympic Trials,” said Jay, “and 20, all participated in age group swimming And while the Van Cleaves might not after seeing what an impressive job the — “We never ate dinner before 8:00 recognize the importance of their own role in Foundation team had done there, we wanted p.m.,” said Julie with a laugh. Their oldest making that vision a reality, the evidence is to give others a way to get involved.” daughter rowed crew in college like her indisputable. Their $25,000 matching gift is The Van Cleaves come by their love of mom. Their middle son became a triathlete. exactly the type of gesture that helps save swimming honestly. Julie swam for her high Their youngest son is currently swimming lives and build champions. school team before rowing crew in college, collegiately for Washington University in St. Said Julie, “We’re just ordinary people who and now, even as Chief Investment Officer Louis. like to support swimming. We’re one of what at the University of Wisconsin Foundation, Jay is no stranger to the water, either we consider to be hundreds of thousands of is dedicated to her Masters program. She — although he’s quick to point out that swim families out there who benefit from takes part in swim trips to exotic locales he’s not quite the capital-S Swimmer his the sport. There are so many other people like Croatia and Montenegro. In 2015, she wife and children are. Nevertheless, he just like us. We don’t view ourselves as traveled to USA Swimming headquarters in understands the sport’s ability to change exceptional, except that we’re lucky enough to Colorado Springs to participate in the USA lives. “For our family, swimming has been have been connected to the USA Swimming Swimming Foundation Adult Performance a great opportunity for our kids to learn a Foundation.” Camp, where a slew of American Olympic lifesaving skill, to develop self-reliance and The feeling is mutual. 4 | MEDALS to MILESTONES Leadership in Profile: GREG ROSENBAUM here is very little limelight behind the Tscenes, but that’s how Greg Rosenbaum likes it. The Maryland-based businessman has made a career of supporting and empowering others. Successful turns in finance and consulting led to stints as a vice chair of the Platform Committee for the 2016 Democratic National Convention, as a charter member of the Clinton Global Initiative, and in various leadership posts at his alma mater, Harvard University. Add to that list his service on the USA waned. He was at the pool for nearly every in the annual silent auction at Golden Goggles, Swimming Foundation Board of Directors, event during the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, both as a bidder and the procurer of truly where Rosenbaum helps steer the organization and when the Games came to Atlanta in remarkable items, has become something of in its mission to save lives and build 1996, he gave his wife and children the same legend.