How much did AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

duplicatescholarshipyouthteachers

2020

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2021

—

2022

abta

2023

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2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $10k
$10k–50k3 grants · $71k

$14,470

Median grant

States reached

$2.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE INC$46,661
ATLANTA JUNIOR BRIDGE (DBA JUMPSTART BRIDGE)$14,470
UNITED STATES BRIDGE FEDERATION$10,000
AMERICAN BRIDGE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION$9,700

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 44% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUElessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 13% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$247k · 6 repeat orgs$203k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$247k

$188k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%

+65%

Still filing today

50%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

TA
THE AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE INC
4× · 2017–2024 · $86k · revenue +1%
YB
YBEO-YOUTH BRIDGE
3× · 2017–2019 · $45k
BW
BRIDGE WITH PATTY LLC
2× · 2018–2019 · $34k

Funded once

FS
FORKLIFT STUDIOS LLC
one grant, 2020 · $38k
GR
GRANT REFUNDINGgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +74%
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USA2 Rona - U26 Junior Women's Bridge Team co Amber Y Lin
one grant, 2023 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

S C Bridge Foundation

Promote the game of bridge

Education

Builders Bridge

Human Services

District 9-American Contract Bridge League

To conduct and supervise Bridge Tournaments. This involves promoting of the tournaments. The organization also teaches and educates about the game of bridge.

Recreation & Sports

Fun and Games Duplicate Bridge Club

Teaching and playing duplicate bridge.

Education

Adobe Bridge Club

Providing education, training, practice and play of duplicate bridge for the general public. we also collect donations at certain of our events for distribution to other local charities and make our facilities available, at no cost, to…

Recreation & Sports

The Hartford Bridge Club Incorporated

Provide opportunities to learn and play duplicate bridge to our members and the general public.

Human Services

Bridge International Inc

International

St Louis Bridge Center

The center uses bridge as an educational tool for youth and adults. by teaching bridge through formal instruction and providing opportunities to play, the center teaches discipline, motivates academic, professional and other achievements,…

Education

Bridge Builders Foundation

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International Assoc of Bridge Structural

The objectives of the union, as the representative of its members, are to improve working conditions and living standards of members through collective bargaining, education, training and employee benefits and to establish necessary…

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The Villages Duplicate Bridge Club

Promotion of duplicate bridge by providing educational classes and seminars and conducting sanctioned duplicate bridge games.

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United States Bowling Congress

Bowling Activities Jamboree Annual Meeting Hosting State Bowling Championship Tournaments for MenWomenYouthSeniorMixed

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Contract Bridge League and the most unlike its peers is Bridge Brigade Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

06the grantee network

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

8/9

Grantees still filing

5/9

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$363,417Recreation & Sports$29,000Education$27,500Philanthropy$15,000Youth Development$14,470

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCA3.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: AMERICAN BRIDGE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 237270878 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on AMERICAN BRIDGE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 19% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to American Contract Bridge League?

Find your warmest path to American Contract Bridge League through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to American Contract Bridge League?

More from the funding graph

AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to American Contract Bridge League?

More from the funding graph