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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 FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $265,024, the rows itemized in this filing. The $281,899 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,875 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $259k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$581k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SIMPLE FOUNDATION$35,000
FOOTBALL FOR THE WORLD FOUNDATION USA$30,025
ENGAGED INSIGHT$30,000
STUDENTS ATHLETES VALUES EDUCATION INC$25,000
IVY LEAUGE YOUTH SPORTS ACADEMY$21,000
BLACK POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION (BPOA)$20,499
OMAHA STARLINGS$20,000
NEBRASKA HOOPS ELITE$20,000
THE KEYS FOUNDATION$17,500
JAMES SCURLOCK SPORTS ACADEMY$15,000
PEAR TREE PERFORMING ARTS$15,000
B & B BOXING ACADEMY INC$10,000
OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$6,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WRIGHT TRACK: $72k → 12%WRIGHT TRACK: $30k → 12%NEBRASKA HOOPS ELITE: $20k → 12%WRIGHT TRACK: $20k → 12%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$890k · 14 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
6

Total granted

$890k
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-7%
+6%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • BP
    BLACK POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF OMA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $108k · revenue +38%
  • SV
    STARLINGS VOLLEYBALL USA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $75k · revenue +22%
  • IL
    IVY LEAGUE YOUTH SPORTS ACADEMY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $47k · revenue +267% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HOUSE OF AFROS CAPES & CURLS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +6%
  • LE
    LADY EXPRESS UNITED
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • AN
    ABIDE NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +61%
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
Young Athlete Foundation
Youth Development
2
Star Players Academy
—
3
Bright Future Athletes Foundation

To provide education, leadership, health, nutrition and opportunies through spots for underpril

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4
Perfect Play Athletics Foundation
—
5
Ola Athletic Association
—
6
Koa Sports League Inc

Koa is committed to shaping kids' lives through sports. through the following approach, koa aims to develop each child to his or her full potential as an athlete and a person: - employing trained and dedicated professional coaches and…

Recreation & Sports
7
Global Sports Cares
Philanthropy
8
Athletic Opportunity Fund Inc
—
9
Prime Athletic Performance the Real Nine Football Foundation
Recreation & Sports
10
Unite Academy
Youth Development
11
International Student Athlete Academy Inc
—
12
Athletes of Promise Foundation
Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omaha Public Schools Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Pearl Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 20 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOOTBALL FOR THE WORLD FOUNDATION USA: $103,525 · Recreation & SportsFOOTBALL FOR THE WORLD FOUND…STARLINGS VOLLEYBALL USA: $75,000 · Recreation & SportsSTARLINGS VOLLEYBALL USAIVY LEAGUE YOUTH SPORTS ACADEMY: $47,000 · Recreation & SportsIVY LEAGUE YOUTH SPORTS ACAD…B&B SPORTS ACADEMY: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsB&B SPORTS ACADEMYENGAGED INSIGHT FOUNDATION: $63,000 · OtherENGAGED INSIGHT FOUNDATIONTHE KEYS FOUNDATION: $56,100 · OtherTHE KEYS FOUNDATIONJAMES SCURLOCK SPORTS ACADEMY: $37,500 · OtherJAMES SCURLOCK SPORTS ACADEMYLADY EXPRESS UNITED: $30,000 · OtherLADY EXPRESS UNITEDPEAR TREE PERFORMING ARTS: $25,000 · OtherPEAR TREE PERFORMING ARTSOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $12,500 · OtherABIDE NETWORK INC: $10,000 · OtherSTUDENTS ATHLETES VALUES EDUCATION INC: $33,000 · OtherSTUDENTS ATHLETES VALUES EDUCATI…+3 more: $19,500 · Other+3 moreWright Track: $142,000 · Human ServicesWright TrackSIMPLE FOUNDATION: $117,500 · EducationSIMPLE FOUNDA…BLACK POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF OMA: $107,999 · Public Safety & DisasterBLACK POLICE…OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE: $45,000 · Community ImprovementTHE HOUSE OF AFROS CAPES & CURLS INC: $40,300 · Arts & Culture
Recreation & Sports$250,525Other$286,600Human Services$142,000Education$117,500Public Safety & Disaster$107,999Community Improvement$45,000Arts & Culture$40,300

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 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
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.

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 FoundationThe Sherwood Foundati…Weitz Family Foundati…Parker Family Foundat…Gilbert M and Martha …The Charles and Mary …Peter Kiewit Foundati…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Equal Play - Inspiring Confidence for Girls funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Equal Play - Inspiring Confidence for Girls. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Equal Play - Inspiring Confidence for Girls?

    Find your warmest path to Equal Play - Inspiring Confidence for Girls through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    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.

    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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