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Major League Baseball Youth Foundation

The organization provides recreational & educational opportunities for urban, minority, and at-risk youth.

$799k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$4.1MYouth Development$3.0MEducation$317kPublic Benefit$300kEnvironment$110kHuman Services$43kPhilanthropy$36kSocial Science$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $548,381, the rows itemized in this filing. The $798,937 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $250,556 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

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $450k
$75,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Good Sports Inc: $50k → 7%Pitch In For Baseball & Softball: $175k → 6%Pitch In For Baseball: $184k → 7%Pirates Charities: $15k → 11%Pony Baseball and Softball: $40k → 12%Youth Stickball League Inc: $10k → 12%Philadelphia Phillies: $44k → 22%Nationals Elite Baseball: $10k → 14%Kevin Williams Foundation: $25k → 7%Natural Heritage Trust: $25k → 14%Up2Us Inc: $35k → 17%Binghamton University: $10k → 20%Prairie View A&M University: $10k → 14%Dixie Youth Baseball Inc: $36k → 16%American Amateur Baseball Congress: $30k → 22%Florida League: $45k → 13%Nova Southeastern University: $13k → 13%Westminster Christian School: $50k → 15%USA Baseball: $3.1M → 11%Mentoring Viable Prospects: $20k → 14%American Legion National: $43k → 16%UIC ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT: $18k → 14%Babe Ruth League Inc: $25k → 11%Aspen Institute: $25k → 7%Baltimore Orioles Foundation: $11k → 19%Good Sports Inc: $75k → 7%Pitch In For Baseball and Softball: $175k → 6%Pitch In For Baseball: $178k → 7%Natural Heritage Trust: $25k → 14%Up2Us Inc: $14k → 17%USA Softball Inc: $26k → 16%Good Sports Inc: $75k → 7%Pitch In For Baseball: $175k → 7%Natural Heritage Trust: $19k → 14%Foundation Center: $16k → 17%Good Sports Inc: $75k → 7%Pitch In For Baseball: $175k → 7%Natural Heritage Trust: $16k → 14%DREAM: $350k → 17%Good Sports Inc: $75k → 7%Pitch In For Baseball: $175k → 7%DREAM: $250k → 17%Good Sports Inc: $75k → 7%DREAM: $250k → 17%Megan Hodges: $250k → 17%DREAM: $250k → 17%DREAM: $250k → 17%Harlem RBI Inc: $200k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
NM
AR
NC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 7 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
54

Total granted

$3.7M
$4.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+39%

Still filing today

71%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropySocial ScienceYouth 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

  • HR
    HARLEM RBI INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +31%
  • PI
    PITCH IN FOR BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +35%
  • GS
    GOOD SPORTS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $425k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • US
    UNITED STATES BASEBALL FEDERATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3.1M · revenue +39%
  • US
    UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF MAYORS
    one grant, 2018 · $300k
  • WC
    WESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN PRIVATE SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +64%
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
National Collegiate Athletic Association

Provide a world-class athletics and academic experience for student-athletes that fosters lifelong well-being.

Recreation & Sports
2
Ucf Athletics Association Inc

To provide opportunity to young people and develop leaders for industry, philanthropy, education and the community through the intercollegiate athletic experience.

Education
3
Northeast Conference

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…

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4
Society for American Baseball Research Inc

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…

Recreation & Sports
5
The Baseball Inc

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…

Recreation & Sports
6
American Athletic Conference

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…

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7
Big West Conference

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…

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8
University of Louisville Athletic Association

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…

Recreation & Sports
9
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
10
Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association

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.

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11
Lone Star Conference

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…

Education
12
Furman University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United States Baseball Federation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/43
Grantees still filing
30/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED STATES BASEBALL FEDERATION INC: $3,100,000 · OtherUNITED STATES BASEBALL FEDERATION INCPITCH IN FOR BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL: $1,236,171 · OtherPITCH IN FOR BASEBALL AND SOFTBALLUNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF MAYORS: $300,000 · OtherUNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF MAYORS+30 more: $494,612 · Other+30 moreHARLEM RBI INC: $1,800,000 · PhilanthropyHARLEM RBI INC+2 more: $26,000 · PhilanthropyGOOD SPORTS INC: $425,000 · Youth DevelopmentUP2US INC: $49,000 · Recreation & SportsFLORIDA COLLEGIATE SUMMER LEAGUE INC: $45,000 · Recreation & SportsPONY BASEBALL INC: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsROME BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC: $38,381 · Recreation & SportsDYB Inc: $36,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL AMATEUR BASEBALL FEDERATION INC: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsUSA SOFTBALL INC: $26,300 · Recreation & SportsKEVIN WILLIAMS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsBABE RUTH LEAGUE INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsMENTORING VIABLE PROSPECTS: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsPIRATES CHARITIES: $15,000 · Recreation & Sports+3 more: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsWESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC: $50,000 · EducationNova Southeastern University Inc: $12,500 · EducationSOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM: $9,000 · EducationALCORN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 · EducationCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY TEXAS: $7,500 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $7,500 · EducationNORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 · EducationYale University: $7,500 · EducationLINCOLN UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $7,500 · EducationMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $7,500 · EducationFairfield University: $7,500 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · EducationTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 · Social ScienceBROWN UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · Community Improvement
Other$5,130,783Philanthropy$1,826,000Youth Development$425,000Recreation & Sports$379,681Education$147,500Social Science$25,000Community Improvement$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED STATES BASEBALL FEDERATION INC: $3,100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetHARLEM RBI INC: $1,800,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetPITCH IN FOR BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL: $1,236,171 over 7y, 14% of budgetGOOD SPORTS INC: $425,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNATURAL HERITAGE TRUST: $109,512 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUP2US INC: $49,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFLORIDA COLLEGIATE SUMMER LEAGUE INC: $45,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetThe American Legion: $42,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPONY BASEBALL INC: $40,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetROME BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC: $38,381 over 1y, 71% of budgetDYB Inc: $36,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetAMERICAN AMATEUR BASEBALL CONGRESS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetKEVIN WILLIAMS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBABE RUTH LEAGUE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPIRATES CHARITIES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BALTIMORE ORIOLES FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBecause Baseball Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetASTROS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOR THE CITY NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEL PASO BORDER YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetGamers Sports Travel: $10,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetRookie League of Oklahoma: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetGrambling University Athletic Foundation Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetSOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALCORN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY TEXAS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYale University: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield University: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $7,500 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.

United States Basebal…Major League Baseball…Strada Education Foun…MLB-MLBPA Youth Devel…Major League Baseball…Kpmg US Foundation IncNational Collegiate A…Good Sports IncTulsa Community Found…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…
United States Baseball Federation IncNC15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Major League Baseball Youth Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Major League Baseball Youth Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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 · 0–75%
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 Major League Baseball Youth Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Major League Baseball Youth 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 66 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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