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MLB-MLBPA Youth Development Foundation

To improve the caliber, effectiveness and availablility of amateur baseball programs, the quality of baseball education, and the overall participation in baseball and softball its fy2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$5.6MYouth Development$3.2MEducation$2.7MInternational$1.0MPhilanthropy$939kCommunity Improvement$749kHousing & Shelter$555kCrime & Legal$500kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
$10,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
But God Ministries$500,000
Negro leagues Family Alliance$500,000
Gamers Sports Travel$250,000
New York City Police Foundation$250,000
Pitch In For Baseball & Softball$50,000
Caddo Parish Commission$50,000
UMPS Care Charities$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
Southside Youth Development Inc$10,000
City of Smithers$10,000
West Orange Girls Club Inc$9,960
Greater Apostolic Temple$5,812
City of Henning$5,000
City of Waupaca$5,000
George Wythe High School$5,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $938k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE JERRY MANUEL FOUNDATION: $244k → 12%WeFam United Inc: $4k → 13%Journey House Inc: $150k → 17%The Miracle league of the Tria: $139k → 8%LEAD Inc: $150k → 13%DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $73k → 21%Journey House Inc: $150k → 17%Detroit Police Athletic League: $29k → 21%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

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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.
$7.6M · 19 repeat orgs$8.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
90

Total granted

$7.6M
$7.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+14%

Still filing today

95%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $908k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • CB
    CHICAGO BASEBALL AND EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1.0M · revenue +21%
  • BUT GOD MINISTRIES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +6%
  • RF
    RIVER FALLS BASEBALL COUNCIL INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $850k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • ML
    Major League Baseball Youth Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $1.3M · revenue -72%
  • TR
    TEXAS RANGERS BASEBALL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue -63%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +46%
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
Mlb-Mlbpa Youth Development Foundation
Recreation & Sports
2
Warren Park Youth Baseball League
Recreation & Sports
3
Marauders Baseball Club

Youth Baseball league

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4
Junior Major League Inc

Youth Baseball Organization

Youth Development
5
Elite Sandlot Baseball
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6
Mayhem Baseball Corporation Nfp
Philanthropy
7
So Cal Aces Baseball Club

Youth sports

Religion
8
Icon Baseball Inc

Youth Education

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9
Little League Inc

To run a youth baseball organization

Recreation & Sports
10
East Liverpool Area Youth Baseball

Youth baseball league ages 4-14

Recreation & Sports
11
Northeast Youth Baseball Incorporat
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12
Little League Baseball Inc

To promote youth development

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Major League Baseball Youth Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Roundabout Theatre Company Inc. 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

70 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. 70 of the 123 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/70
Grantees still filing
41/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WASHINGTON NATIONALS YOUTH BASEBALL ACADEMY: $700,000 · OtherWASHINGTON NATIONALS YOUTH BASEBALL ACADEM…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE: $500,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLENATIONAL NEGRO LEAGUES FAMILY ALLIANCE: $500,000 · OtherNATIONAL NEGRO LEAGUES FAMILY ALLIANCEMAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION: $495,000 · OtherMAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATIONBALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $400,000 · OtherBALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLSPITCH IN FOR BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL: $300,000 · OtherTHE CINCINNATI REDS COMMUNITY FUND: $649,000 · OtherTHE CINCINNATI REDS COMMUNITY FUNDNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · OtherNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC+70 more: $2,075,639 · Other+70 moreMajor League Baseball Youth Foundation: $1,250,000 · Recreation & SportsMajor League Baseball Youth…RIVER FALLS BASEBALL COUNCIL INC: $850,000 · Recreation & SportsRIVER FALLS BASEBALL COUNCI…PITCCH IN FOUNDATION INC: $710,000 · Recreation & SportsPITCCH IN FOUNDATION INCINGLEWOOD BASEBALL FUND: $301,000 · Recreation & SportsINGLEWOOD BASEBALL FUNDGamers Sports Travel: $250,000 · Recreation & SportsGamers Sports TravelSAILOR'S SNUG HARBOR LITTLE LEAGUE: $200,000 · Recreation & Sports+14 more: $363,170 · Recreation & Sports+14 moreTEXAS RANGERS BASEBALL FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · EducationTEXAS RANGERS…Queens University of Charlotte: $400,000 · EducationQueens Univer…CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $333,333 · EducationCALIFORNIA ST…CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · EducationCAL RIPKEN SR…+1 more: $10,000 · EducationCHICAGO BASEBALL AND EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY INC: $1,000,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHICAGO BA…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND G…PRO YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $145,000 · Youth DevelopmentPRO YOUTH …GOOD SPORTS INC: $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentGOOD SPORT…BRIDGEPORT CARIBE YOUTH LEADERS INC: $65,325 · Youth Development+5 more: $102,611 · Youth Development+5 moreBUT GOD MINISTRIES: $1,000,000 · InternationalJOURNEY HOUSE INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesTHE JERRY MANUEL FOUNDATION: $244,000 · Human ServicesLEAD INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF THE TRIANGLE: $139,000 · Human ServicesDETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $101,756 · Human Services+1 more: $3,625 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC: $450,000 · PhilanthropyGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND: $244,388 · PhilanthropyTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $144,230 · Philanthropy
Other$6,119,639Recreation & Sports$3,924,170Education$1,993,333Youth Development$1,572,936International$1,000,000Human Services$938,381Philanthropy$838,618

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 budgetBUT GOD MINISTRIES: $1,000,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetPITCCH IN FOUNDATION INC: $710,000 over 2y, 65% of budgetWASHINGTON NATIONALS YOUTH BASEBALL ACADEMY: $700,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE CINCINNATI REDS COMMUNITY FUND: $649,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE: $500,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetNATIONAL NEGRO LEAGUES FAMILY ALLIANCE: $500,000 over 1y, 98% of budgetMAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION: $495,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC: $450,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetQueens University of Charlotte: $400,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $333,333 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetINGLEWOOD BASEBALL FUND: $301,000 over 5y, 65% of budgetPITCH IN FOR BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL: $300,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetJOURNEY HOUSE INC: $300,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetGamers Sports Travel: $250,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND: $244,388 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSAILOR'S SNUG HARBOR LITTLE LEAGUE: $200,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetLEAD INC: $150,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPRO YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $145,000 over 2y, 51% of budgetTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $144,230 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF THE TRIANGLE: $139,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetUNITED STATES BASEBALL FEDERATION INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGOOD SPORTS INC: $110,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $101,756 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUFFALO URBAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHENDERSON BOYS BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC: $77,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetBRIDGEPORT CARIBE YOUTH LEADERS INC: $65,325 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetBASEBALL FOR ALL INC ATTN JUSTINE SIEGAL: $50,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH SPORTS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetEL PASO BORDER YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOC: $40,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCAN PLAY: $35,757 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCLEVELAND GUARDIANS CHARITIES INC: $32,379 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOOKSETT YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $28,089 over 1y, 12% of budgetWASHINGTON DC POLICE FOUNDATION: $27,349 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBONNIE BOYS CLUB INC: $25,780 over 1y, 12% of budgetUMPS CARE CHARITIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetWEIRTON BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC: $17,305 over 1y, 17% of budgetAlachua County 4-H Association: $15,839 over 1y, 21% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SEYMOUR INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPOWER CROSS: $14,747 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBACKFIELD IN MOTION: $14,300 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF YOGI INC: $14,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBUCK LEONARD ASSOCIATION FOR SPORTS AND HUMAN ENRICHMENT B L-ASHE: $13,206 over 1y, 17% 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.

Good Sports IncDick's Sporting Goods…Major League Baseball…Major League Baseball…Tickets for Kids Foun…Pitch in for Baseball…The Players Alliance …Fantasy Camps for KidsMajor League Baseball…Cal Ripken Sr Foundat…Rays Baseball Foundat…Womens Sports Foundat…
Good Sports IncMA31.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Good Sports Inc · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Major League Baseball Charities Inc · Major League Baseball Players Trust · Tickets for Kids Foundation · Pitch in for Baseball and Softball · The Players Alliance Inc · Fantasy Camps for Kids · Major League Baseball Youth Foundation · Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · Womens Sports 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 MLB-MLBPA Youth Development Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from MLB-MLBPA Youth Development Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Parks and People Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
  • The Red Sox Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wefam United Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 123 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-PF 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home