· Public charity
Major League Baseball Youth Foundation
The organization provides recreational & educational opportunities for urban, minority, and at-risk youth.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $548,381 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $798,937 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $250,556 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
- $10k–50k3 grants · $98k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Harlem RBI Inc | $200,000 |
| Pitch In For Baseball & Softball | $175,000 |
| Good Sports Inc | $75,000 |
| Rome Baseball Association Inc | $38,381 |
| Up2Us Inc | $35,000 |
| Natural Heritage Trust | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of your 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.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- HRHARLEM RBI INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +31%
- PIPITCH IN FOR BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +35%
- GSGOOD SPORTS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $425k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- USUNITED STATES BASEBALL FEDERATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3.1M · revenue +39%
- USUNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF MAYORSone grant, 2018 · $300k
- WCWESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN PRIVATE SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +64%
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.
Provide a world-class athletics and academic experience for student-athletes that fosters lifelong well-being.
To provide opportunity to young people and develop leaders for industry, philanthropy, education and the community through the intercollegiate athletic experience.
The conference is committed to providing quality athletics competition integral to and consistent with its member institutions' academic missions. the conference is dedicated to providing opportunities for student-athletes to achieve their…
The purpose of sabr is to encourage the study of baseball, past and present, as a significant athletic and social institution; to encourage further research and literary efforts; to establish the accurate historical record of baseball; to…
The base ball, inc. d/b/a the base is a not-for-profit organization working to shift the national mindset and re-imagine pathways to success for urban youth. founded in roxbury, ma, the base operates in boston and on the westside of…
The american conference's mission is to provide students with the highest quality education and level of competition. working together with a collective strength and spirit, our universities are committed to our students' health and…
The purpose is to maintain intercollegiate athletics as an integral part of the education program and the athlete as an integral part of the student body and by doing so, retain a clear line of demarcation between college athletics and…
The University of Louisville Athletic Association is organized to develop intercollegiate athletic teams composed of students of the University of Louisville and to schedule and manage intercollegiate athletic contests, all in the harmony…
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
To promote the game of baseball, raise money for charity, inspire and educate youth through positive sport images and protect the dignity of the game through former players.
The mission of the lone star conference is to foster student participation and success among member institutions in ncaa division ii intercollegiate athletics as an integral part of each institution's total educational program. it shall…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United States Baseball Federation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Astros Foundation. 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 54 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 66 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
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 UNITED STATES BASEBALL FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM RBI INC ↗
- Who funds PITCH IN FOR BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL ↗
- Who funds GOOD SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL HERITAGE TRUST ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UP2US INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA COLLEGIATE SUMMER LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds The American Legion ↗
- Who funds PONY BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds ROME BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DYB Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN AMATEUR BASEBALL CONGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AMATEUR BASEBALL FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds USA SOFTBALL INC ↗
- Who funds KEVIN WILLIAMS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BABE RUTH LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds MENTORING VIABLE PROSPECTS ↗
- Who funds CANDID ↗
- Who funds PIRATES CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BALTIMORE ORIOLES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASTROS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Because Baseball Inc ↗
- Who funds EL PASO BORDER YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOC ↗
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: United States Baseball Federation Inc · Major League Baseball Charities Inc · Strada Education Foundation Inc · MLB-MLBPA Youth Development Foundation · Major League Baseball Players Trust · Kpmg US Foundation Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Good Sports Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Youth Foundation 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Babe Ruth League Inc — 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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