Massachusetts · Public charity
Play Ball Foundation Inc
The play ball foundation funds middle school sports programs in gateway communities throughout massachusetts. The foundation works to address the opportunity gap by creating school-based leagues for those middle schoolers who otherwise would not have the access and opportunity to play.
- $544k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $51,260
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $156,505
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 6
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Play Ball Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $544k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $457k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $117k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $105k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $68k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $100k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $191k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $128k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence Public Schools | $678,189 | 8 | n/a |
| The Boston Educational Development Foundation Inc | $282,547 | 4 | 1% |
| Friends of the Mendell Non Profit Corporation | $188,543 | 2 | n/a |
| City of Methuen Mi | $129,617 | 2 | n/a |
| Lynn Public Schools | $126,904 | 2 | n/a |
| New Bedford Public Schools | $122,375 | 3 | n/a |
| City of Holyoke | $95,876 | 3 | n/a |
| Salem Public Schools | $70,624 | 2 | n/a |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Boston Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boston Latin School | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
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.
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How this is measured
About Play Ball Foundation Inc
- How much does Play Ball Foundation Inc give?
- Play Ball Foundation Inc reported 7 grants totaling $543,661 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Play Ball Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (93%), Education (6%), Human Services (1%).
- Who are Play Ball Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lawrence Public Schools ($678k), The Boston Educational Development Foundation Inc ($283k), Friends of the Mendell Non Profit Corporation ($189k).
- Does Play Ball Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Play Ball Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Project Lead the Way Inc, Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc, Nellie Mae Education Foundation Inc.
- Where is Play Ball Foundation Inc based?
- Play Ball Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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