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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.

$409k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$251k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$223kEducation$116kYouth Development$64kHealth$34kHuman Services$7kCivil Rights$5k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $324,203, the rows itemized in this filing. The $408,803 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $84,600 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
  • $250k+1 grant · $251k
$64,003
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ATLANTA JUNIOR BRIDGE (DBA JUMPSTART BRIDGE)$250,500
THE AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE INC$64,003
AMERICAN BRIDGE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION$9,700
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%USA2 Rona - U26 Junior Women's Bridge Team co Amber Y Lin: $20k → 7%ALEXANDER G KOLESNIK - UNITED STATES BRIDGE FEDERATION: $19k → 10%BRIDGE BRIGADE: $10k → 14%BRIDGE CENTER OF BUFFALO: $7k → 13%FORKLIFT STUDIOS LLC: $38k → 20%CENTRAL FLORIDA YOUTH BRIDGE INC: $5k → 13%MICHIGAN YOUTH BRIDGE: $20k → 8%BIRMINGHAM DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB: $18k → 7%AMERICAN BRIDGE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION: $12k → 15%ABTA: $17k → 12%AMERICAN BRIDGE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%ATLANTA JUNIOR BRIDGE: $6k → 14%YBEO-YOUTH BRIDGE: $15k → 12%UNITED STATES BRIDGE FEDERATION: $10k → 14%THE AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE INC: $64k → 10%ST AUGUSTINE GRADE SCHOOL: $7k → 19%MICHIGAN YOUTH BRIDGE: $13k → 8%AMERICAN BRIDGE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION: $9k → 15%AMERICAN BRIDGE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%YBEO-YOUTH BRIDGE: $13k → 12%THE AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE INC: $47k → 10%AMERICAN BRIDGE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION: $6k → 15%YBEO-CARLINVILLE YOUTH SUMMER CAMP: $12k → 12%GRANT REFUNDING: $25k → 10%AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE: $15k → 10%AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE COLLEGIATE BOWL: $12k → 10%AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE: $12k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
NV
CA
MO
KY
TN
NC
MS
AL
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 11% of American Contract Bridge League Educational Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

American Contract Bridge League Educational Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 13% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$585k · 7 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against -13% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
12

Total granted

$585k
$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
-13%

Still filing today

57%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AJ
    Atlanta Junior Bridge Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $265k · 66% of their budget
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +1%
  • YB
    YOUTH BRIDGE EDUCATION ORGANIZATION NFP INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $45k

Funded once

  • FS
    FORKLIFT STUDIOS LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $38k
  • AC
    AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +18%
  • UR
    USA2 Rona - U26 Junior Women's Bridge Team co Amber Y Lin
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Builders Bridge
Human Services
2
S C Bridge Foundation

Promote the game of bridge

Education
3
American Contract Bridge League Unit 503

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.

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4
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
5
The Hartford Bridge Club Incorporated

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

Human Services
6
International Assoc of Bridge Structural & Ornamental Iron Workers Local 361

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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7
Bridge Builders Foundation
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8
Bridge Ethics & Education Corp

Teach the game of bridge in colleges

Education
9
Harry Bridges Little League

Little league baseball

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10
American Contract Bridge League Charity Foundation Corp

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…

Philanthropy
11
Vero Beach Duplicate Bridge Club Inc

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.

Recreation & Sports
12
Fun and Games Duplicate Bridge Club

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Contract Bridge League Educational Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE INC: $149,678 · OtherTHE AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE INCYOUTH BRIDGE EDUCATION ORGANIZATION NFP INC: $45,042 · OtherYOUTH BRIDGE EDUCATION ORGANIZATION NFP INCFORKLIFT STUDIOS LLC: $38,000 · OtherFORKLIFT STUDIOS LLCAMERICAN BRIDGE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $36,600 · OtherAMERICAN BRIDGE TEACHERS ASSOCIATIONBRIDGE WITH PATTY LLC: $33,500 · OtherBRIDGE WITH PATTY LLCAMERICAN BRIDGE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION: $26,700 · OtherAMERICAN BRIDGE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATIONAMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $24,910 · OtherAMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONUSA2 Rona - U26 Junior Women's Bridge Team co Amber Y Lin: $20,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN FUND FOR CHARITIES: $15,000 · Other+7 more: $47,690 · Other+7 moreAtlanta Junior Bridge Inc: $264,970 · Youth DevelopmentAtlanta Junior Bridge IncUNITED STATES BRIDGE FEDERATION: $29,000 · Recreation & SportsBIRMINGHAM DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB INC: $17,500 · EducationBRIDGE BRIGADE INC: $10,000 · EducationTRUMAN HEARTLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$437,120Youth Development$264,970Recreation & Sports$29,000Education$27,500Philanthropy$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAtlanta Junior Bridge Inc: $264,970 over 2y, 66% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE INC: $149,678 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN BRIDGE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $36,600 over 3y, 19% of budgetUNITED STATES BRIDGE FEDERATION: $29,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetAMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $24,910 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetBIRMINGHAM DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB INC: $17,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetTRUMAN HEARTLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FUND FOR CHARITIES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

  • Who funds Atlanta Junior Bridge Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN BRIDGE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES BRIDGE FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUMAN HEARTLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN FUND FOR CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE BRIGADE INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Contract Bridge League Educational Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Contract Bridge League Educational Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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