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Pitch in for Baseball and Softball

PITCH IN FOR BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL (pifbs) helps give the gift of play and contributes to positive youth development by providing equipment to the economically disadvantaged and under-resourced children around the world.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
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Largest
01What it funds
01FY2024

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $2,176,372.

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Median grant
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States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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 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
Warren Park Youth Baseball League
Recreation & Sports
2
Marauders Baseball Club

Youth Baseball league

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3
Elite Sandlot Baseball
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4
Little League Baseball Inc

Little League Baseball

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5
Mayhem Baseball Corporation Nfp
Philanthropy
6
Junior Major League Inc

Youth Baseball Organization

Youth Development
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Little League Inc

To run a youth baseball organization

Recreation & Sports
8
So Cal Aces Baseball Club

Youth sports

Religion
9
Martinez Baseball Club
Recreation & Sports
10
East Liverpool Area Youth Baseball

Youth baseball league ages 4-14

Recreation & Sports
11
Parkhurst Field Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
12
Colorado Rage Baseball
Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Baseball; 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.

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.

Major League Baseball Charities IncNY27.7× 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 · Fantasy Camps for Kids · Major League Baseball Players Trust · Good Sports Inc · Teammates for Kids Foundation · MLB-MLBPA Youth Development Foundation · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Edward Charles Foundation · California Community Foundation · Good360 · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment 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.
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How do I get to Pitch in for Baseball and Softball?

Find your warmest path to Pitch in for Baseball and Softball 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, 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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