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PITCH IN FOR BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL
Provide baseball and softball equipment for the economically disadvantaged and under-resourced.
$2.2M
Granted FY2024
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Grants
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Communities
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Largest
01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
expansion needy
2019
fulfilmentbuildingred soxrockvillefieldsoperatesports
2020
little leaguedept parksparks recreationredsbuildfosterencourage
2021
educationgiantsuseshealthpropelunderservedregions
2022
giantsuseshealtheducationpropelunderservedregions
2023
educationgiantsuseshealthpropelunderservedregions
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $2,176,372.
$0
Median grant
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States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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Little League Baseball Inc
To provide opportunity for children to participate and promote little league baseball in the surrounding community.
Recreation & Sports
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Warren Park Youth Baseball League
Recreation & Sports
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Little League Baseball Inc
Little League Baseball
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Parkway Baseball League Inc
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South St Paul Youth Baseball
To develope youth baeballplayers through recreational and compettitive enviroinments: to guide players by principles of sportmanship:to promote respect for self and others; to emphasize baseball fundamentals
Recreation & Sports
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Extreme Baseball
Enroll teams in baseball tournaments to develop life skills.
Recreation & Sports
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United States Baseball Federation Inc
To foster the growth of amateur baseball in the united states and to organize national and international baseball competitions.
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Little League Baseball Inc
To provide the experience of little league baseball to children
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Alexandria Youth Baseball
To have a baseball program that rigorously teaches the fundamentals of baseball while incorporating like skills intended to equip young men with the qualities they will need later in life.
Recreation & Sports
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Bronx Baseball Dreams Inc
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Little League Baseball Inc
Little League Inc. is a non-profit youth organization in New York City.
Recreation & Sports
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Icon Baseball Inc
Youth Education
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Baseball and the most unlike its peers is Robert R Mccormick Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 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) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
2%1/53
the rest of the field
11%
206,163/1,819,512
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.
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.
Major League Baseball Charities IncNY28.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Major League Baseball Charities Inc · Teammates for Kids Foundation · Good Sports Inc · Major League Baseball Players Trust · Fantasy Camps for Kids · MLB-MLBPA Youth Development Foundation · Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc · Edward Charles Foundation · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation
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.
04Through Plinth
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Find your warmest path to Pitch in for Baseball and Softball through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines