New York · Public charity
Major League Baseball Players Trust
The MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYERS TRUST harnesses the expertise, influence, and energy of players to create meaningful and sustainable change in the lifelong well-being of others. This is achieved through a series of programs that are run and funded by the mlb players trust. The trust receives contributions from the general public.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 48
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $11,999
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $225,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 70
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 18
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.8M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Major League Baseball Players Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $381k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 43 | $1.2M | 37% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $864k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $552k | 77% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $1.2M | 63% |
| FY2020 | 70 | $1.8M | 74% |
| FY2019 | 55 | $1.1M | 76% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $1.2M | 72% |
| FY2017 | 41 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Learn Fresh Education Co | $525,000 | 3 | 4% |
| More Than Baseball Inc | $507,550 | 2 | 22% |
| Kaboom Inc | $423,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Project Beisbol Corp | $330,000 | 3 | 79% |
| United States Association for UNHCR | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pacific Prowler Nonprofit Greatest Generation Aircraft | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Advocates for Minor Leaguers | $250,000 | 2 | 44% |
| Medicines for Humanity Inc | $208,417 | 4 | 2% |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Southeast Ventura County | $205,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Feeding America | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 241 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Major League Baseball Players Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 181 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Major League Baseball Charities Inc · Big League Impact Inc · Teammates for Kids Foundation · Pitch in for Baseball and Softball · Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation · MLB-MLBPA Youth Development Foundation · Pirates Charities · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · New York Mets Foundation Inc · The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation · Nfl Foundation Inc · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Major League Baseball Players Trust with peer funders
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About Major League Baseball Players Trust
- How much does Major League Baseball Players Trust give?
- Major League Baseball Players Trust reported 48 itemized grants totaling $1,212,149, out of $1,573,066 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 70 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Major League Baseball Players Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (25%), Education (14%), International (13%).
- Who are Major League Baseball Players Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Learn Fresh Education Co ($525k), More Than Baseball Inc ($508k), Kaboom Inc ($423k).
- Does Major League Baseball Players Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Major League Baseball Players Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Major League Baseball Charities Inc, Big League Impact Inc, Teammates for Kids Foundation.
- Where is Major League Baseball Players Trust based?
- Major League Baseball Players Trust is based in NY.
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