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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 48 grants below total $1,212,149 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,573,066 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $360,917 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
- Under $10k21 grants · $144k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $378k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $690k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT BEISBOL | $225,000 |
| LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO | $200,000 |
| THE BASEBALL ISLAND FOUNDATION INC | $90,000 |
| METRO SPORTS FIELDHOUSE | $75,000 |
| MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| ATHLETICS & BEYOND | $50,000 |
| FLORIDA LEGENDS FOUNDATION INC | $36,000 |
| LIONS UNLEASHED INC | $28,940 |
| HIGH SOCKS FOR HOPE INC | $28,000 |
| OYATE GROUP | $28,000 |
| BIG LEAGUE IMPACT INC | $24,000 |
| THE BONE MARROW FOUNDATION INC | $21,000 |
| STILL GOT GAME FOUNDATION INC | $20,750 |
| TEAMMATES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| CLEVELAND GUARDIANS CHARITIES INC | $16,750 |
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 (FY17–24, $672k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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.
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.
62 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 16 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k 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
LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO3× · 2022–2024 · $525k · revenue +41%- PBPROJECT BEISBOL CORP3× · 2022–2024 · $330k · revenue +11% · 79% of their budget
- MFMEDICINES FOR HUMANITY INC4× · 2017–2020 · $208k · revenue +15%
Funded once
United States Association for UNHCRone grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue -9%- PPPACIFIC PROWLER NONPROFIT GREATEST GENERATION AIRCRAFTone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue -34%
Feeding Americagraduatedone grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +77%
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.
Our mission is to level the playing field for every student athlete deserving of collegiate showcase opportunities and tournament experience regardless of financial constraints. we are focusing primarily on raising money now to offset team…
To foster the growth of amateur baseball in the united states and to organize national and international baseball competitions.
Washington nationals philanthropies is the official charitable arm of the washington nationals. its mission is to help children, families, and communities thrive through sports-based youth development and access to healthy food. the…
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…
To provide funding for the united states baseball federation, inc.
To conduct activities to foster participation and interest in national or international amateur sports competition.
Team impact is the only u.s. nonprofit that tackles the emotional trauma and social isolation experienced by children facing serious and chronic illnesses by matching them with a college athletic team. because no child should be sidelined…
To provide opportunity to young people and develop leaders for industry, philanthropy, education and the community through the intercollegiate athletic experience.
Through the investment of time, talents, and treasure, the charlotte hornets foundation will support, promote, and enhance important community efforts that enrich the quality of life for those in need, especially children and youth…
Usa softball, inc. (usas) is the national governing body of softball in the united states. we develop, administer and promote the sport of softball to provide the opportunities for participation and the best possible experience for those…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Sports Inc and the most unlike its peers is True North Classical Academies Foundation 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 21 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
212 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. 212 of the 252 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds KABOOM INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BEISBOL CORP ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC PROWLER NONPROFIT GREATEST GENERATION AIRCRAFT ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR MINOR LEAGUERS ↗
- Who funds MEDICINES FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST VENTURA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds JACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STILL GOT GAME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED THROUGH READING ↗
- Who funds TEAMMATES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CURTIS GRANDERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds THE BASEBALL ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE GIVE AN HOUR NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Athletics & Beyond ↗
- Who funds GOOD SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds Big League Impact Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Metro Sports Fieldhouse ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CARITAS CUBANA CORP ↗
- Who funds High Socks for Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds OYATE GROUP ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIONS UNLEASHED INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA LEGENDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA BASEBALL CLUB ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE PLAYERS ALLIANCE 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: 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
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 Major League Baseball Players Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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