· Public charity
American Contract Bridge League Educational Foundation
The AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION exists to increase the number of bridge players and to support enjoyment, growth and engagement in the game of bridge as part of building a vibrant future for the mind sport for generations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $80,831 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $245,413 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $164,582 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — 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 11% of American Contract Bridge League Educational Foundation’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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TATHE AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE INC4× · 2017–2024 · $86k · revenue +1%
- YBYOUTH BRIDGE EDUCATION ORGANIZATION NFP INC3× · 2017–2019 · $45k
- BWBRIDGE WITH PATTY LLC2× · 2018–2019 · $34k
Funded once
- FSFORKLIFT STUDIOS LLCone grant, 2020 · $38k
- ACAMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -14%
- URUSA2 Rona - U26 Junior Women's Bridge Team co Amber Y Linone grant, 2023 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Promote the game of bridge
American Contract Bridge League Unit 503 is a bridge organization which promotes the play of duplicate bridge. It is comprised of 10 bridge clubs and is the largest ACBL Unit in the San Francisco Bay Area.
To conduct and supervise Bridge Tournaments. This involves promoting of the tournaments. The organization also teaches and educates about the game of bridge.
Provide opportunities to learn and play duplicate bridge to our members and the general public.
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…
Teach the game of bridge in colleges
Little league baseball
The acbl charity foundation seeks to improve the quality of life in all our communities by providing effective grants on a rotational basis through its 25 districts, by providing good stewardship in the management of funds received through…
To conduct games and promote interest in duplicate bridge to provide a public recreational opportunity within a mutually supportive and positive learning environment, and to provide bridge educational programs.
Teaching beginning, intermediate, and advanced duplicate bridge and providing a place for players to maintain and improve their playing skills in Oklahoma City and surrounding areas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Contract Bridge League Educational Foundation 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.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES BRIDGE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BRIDGE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FUND FOR CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds TRUMAN HEARTLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Junior Bridge Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE BRIGADE INC ↗
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.
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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 organization American Contract Bridge League Educational Foundation 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.
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.