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Mac Sports Foundation

The mission of the MAC SPORTS FOUNDATION (the "foundation") is to operate exclusively for the charitable and educational purposes, including to further encourage and recognize outstanding achievements in the fields of athletics and, in connection therewith, to select for public recognition those individuals who have made outstanding…

$91k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$18k
Largest
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02The needRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Human Services$204kEducation$35kHealth$26kYouth Development$23kHousing & Shelter$5kRecreation & Sports$5k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $82,603, the rows itemized in this filing. The $91,233 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,630 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 $10k5 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$201k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROGRESS IN EDUCATION$17,531
FOSTER TOGETHER$17,530
THE SOULARD SCHOOL$17,530
CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$8,000
YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER$7,012
FRANKIE D'S BOXING$5,000
ASCENSION CHARITY CLASSIC$5,000
ST PATRICK CENTER$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SWEET BABIES: $13k → 5%COVENANT HOUSE: $18k → 21%FOSTER TOGETHER: $18k → 11%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 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
Good Shepherd Children & Family Services

Connecting children with families and keeping families connected by providing pregnancy and parenting support, foster care programs and adoption services.

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2
Children's Home Society of Missouri

The agency's overarching philosophy is based in the neurosequential model of therapeutics (nmt), developed by dr. bruce perry. nmt is a trauma-informed, developmentally sensitive approach to understanding the impact of a child's history on…

Human Services
3
Children First

Children First brings the community together to create better outcomes so that every young person in St. Louis Park can thrive. We convene cross-sector initiatives working to change the odds for our children and families.

Education
4
Child Center-Marygrove

Providing a safe home, compassionate care and high-quality mental health services to children and youth who have experienced significant trauma, to restore their childhood and equip them to productive adulthood.

Health
5
Peace for Kids

The mission of peace for kids is to provide a comprehensive, quality child development program for a diverse socioeconomic and cultural population. peace for kids is committed to assisting working families with safe, quality child care at…

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6
St Martin's Child Center

Providing day care services to infants and children of low income families in northern st. louis county, missouri

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7
Kids Win Missouri

Kids Win Missouri furthers child well-being by advancing the health, education, safety and development of Missouri children and their families, especially those who are at-risk because of poverty, abuse, neglect, racial inequities or other…

Human Services
8
Ssm Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.

Health
9
Catholic Charities of Southern Missouri Inc

A faith-based organization providing compassionaite, quality social services to the vulnerable.

Human Services
10
Children's Miracle Network of Greater St

Impacting the lives of hospitalized children and their families by raising funds and awareness equally benefiting our member hospitals, st. louis children's hospital and ssm health cardinal glennon children's hospital. funds are used for…

Health
11
Child Safe of Central Missouri Inc

Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…

Crime & Legal
12
St Louis Crisis Nursery

Provide temporary care and shelter to children confronted with various life crises and to offer emergency support and community referrals to family members.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Patrick Center; the most unlike its peers is Kellsie's Hope Foundation Inc Nfp. 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 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
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

THE YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER: $131,112 · OtherTHE YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTERCARING FOR KIDS INC: $12,502 · OtherCARING FOR KIDS INCCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $8,000 · Other+2 more: $10,000 · Other+2 moreKellsie's Hope Foundation Inc NFP: $17,730 · EducationKellsie's Hope Found…PROGRESS IN EDUCATION INC: $17,531 · EducationPROGRESS IN EDUCATIO…THE SOULARD SCHOOL: $17,530 · EducationTHE SOULARD SCHOOLCOVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI: $17,730 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE MIS…FOSTER TOGETHER: $17,530 · Human ServicesFOSTER TOGETHERSweet Babies: $12,502 · Human ServicesSweet BabiesGIRLS ON THE RUN OF ST LOUIS: $17,730 · Youth DevelopmentSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $12,502 · Housing & ShelterTOURNAMENTS FOR CHARITY: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$161,614Education$52,791Human Services$47,762Youth Development$17,730Housing & Shelter$12,502Philanthropy$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER: $131,112 over 2y, 12% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI: $17,730 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF ST LOUIS: $17,730 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetKellsie's Hope Foundation Inc NFP: $17,730 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetPROGRESS IN EDUCATION INC: $17,531 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SOULARD SCHOOL: $17,530 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFOSTER TOGETHER: $17,530 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $12,502 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARING FOR KIDS INC: $12,502 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetSweet Babies: $12,502 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOURNAMENTS FOR CHARITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST PATRICK CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

St Louis Community Fo…Brown Dana Charitable…Commerce Bancshares F…St Louis Community Fo…Edward Jones Foundati…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
St Louis Community FoundationMO15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Mac Sports Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mac Sports Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
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    How do I get to Mac Sports Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mac Sports Foundation 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 14 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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