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Billie Jean King Foundation
BILLIE JEAN KING FOUNDATION's mission is to support the next generation of leaders by providing access to the transformative power of sports, education, and fostering activism for positive and inclusive change.BILLIE JEAN KING FOUNDATION's purpose is to continue the lifelong pursuit of its founder billie jean king to level the playing…
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $275,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $290,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,000 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
- $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLLYWOOD HISTORIC TRUST | $75,000 |
| LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER | $50,000 |
| WOMEN'S SPORTS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| ATHLETE ALLY | $15,000 |
| LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| HARLEM JUNIOR TENNIS AND EDUCATION PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| WENDY HILLIARD GYMNASTICS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 47% of Billie Jean King 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 +96% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- NWNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $325k · revenue +23%
- NYNew York Historical Society3× · 2019–2024 · $200k · revenue +1%
- LBLONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +254%
Funded once
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +49%
GIRLS FOR GENDER EQUITY INCone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -51%
National Domestic Workers Alliance Incone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -38%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Womens Sports Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 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.
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 NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS FOR GENDER EQUITY INC ↗
- Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Womens Sports Foundation ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLYWOOD HISTORIC TRUST CO LILY WEINER ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN ↗
- Who funds ATHLETE ALLY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM JUNIOR TENNIS AND EDUCATION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Girls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds THE AUDRE LORDE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FREEDOM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WENDY HILLIARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MaliVai Washington Kids Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds POWERPLAY NYC INC ↗
- Who funds HEROES LINKED ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds One in Long Beach Inc dba The LGBTQ Center Long Beach ↗
- Who funds Center on Halsted ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR INCARCERATED AND FORMERLY INCARCERATED WOMEN & GIRLS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK 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.
Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · California Community Foundation · Select Equity Group Foundation · Borealis Philanthropy · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Express Foundation · Network for Good · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Billie Jean King 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.
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