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Equal Play - Inspiring Confidence for Girls

Epic for girls researches, advocates for, and funds innovative and long-lasting solutions that address inequities in sports for girls of color.

$282k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Itemized grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
47%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$265k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 17
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$581k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 47% of the organizations Equal Play - Inspiring Confidence for Girls funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Recreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$265k0%
FY202317$289k47%
FY202211$228k45%
FY20217$208kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$349kYouth Development$180kEducation$142kArts & Culture$110kPublic Safety & Disaster$108kPublic Benefit$63kHuman Services$20kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wright Track$142,000466%
Simple Foundation$117,50041%
Black Police Officers Association of Oma$107,999411%
Football for the World Foundation USA$103,525413%
Starlings Volleyball USA$75,00045%
Engaged Insight Foundation$63,0002n/a
The Keys Foundation$56,1004n/a
Ivy League Youth Sports Academy$47,000330%
Omaha Community Playhouse$45,00021%
The House of Afros Capes & Curls Inc$40,3001n/a
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All grantees of Equal Play - Inspiring Confidence for Girls by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wright Track$142,000466%
Simple Foundation$117,50041%
Black Police Officers Association of Oma$107,999411%
Football for the World Foundation USA$103,525413%
Starlings Volleyball USA$75,00045%
Engaged Insight Foundation$63,0002n/a
The Keys Foundation$56,1004n/a
Ivy League Youth Sports Academy$47,000330%
Omaha Community Playhouse$45,00021%
The House of Afros Capes & Curls Inc$40,3001n/a
Students Athletes Values Education Inc$33,00027%
Lady Express United$30,0001n/a
B&B Sports Academy$25,00025%
Pear Tree Performing Arts$25,0002n/a
Omaha Public Schools Foundation$12,50020%
Abide Network Inc$10,00010%
Pearl Foundation$7,5001n/a
Omaha Benson High School Alumni Association$6,5001n/a
Bryan High School$5,5001n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($38k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Equal Play - Inspiring Confidence for Girls supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWright Track: $142,000 over 4y, 66% of budgetSimple Foundation: $117,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetBlack Police Officers Association of Oma: $107,999 over 4y, 11% of budgetFootball for the World Foundation USA: $103,525 over 4y, 13% of budgetStarlings Volleyball USA: $75,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetIvy League Youth Sports Academy: $47,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetOmaha Community Playhouse: $45,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetStudents Athletes Values Education Inc: $33,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetB&B Sports Academy: $25,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetOmaha Public Schools Foundation: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAbide Network Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

The Lozier FoundationNE32.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Parker Family Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Equal Play - Inspiring Confidence for Girls

How much does Equal Play - Inspiring Confidence for Girls give?
Equal Play - Inspiring Confidence for Girls reported 13 itemized grants totaling $265,024, out of $281,899 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 17 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Equal Play - Inspiring Confidence for Girls fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (35%), Youth Development (18%), Education (14%).
Who are Equal Play - Inspiring Confidence for Girls's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Wright Track ($142k), Simple Foundation ($118k), Black Police Officers Association of Oma ($108k).
Does Equal Play - Inspiring Confidence for Girls fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Equal Play - Inspiring Confidence for Girls?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lozier Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation, Weitz Family Foundation.
Where is Equal Play - Inspiring Confidence for Girls based?
Equal Play - Inspiring Confidence for Girls is based in NE.

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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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