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Players Philanthropy Fund Inc
Players philanthropy fund provides professional athletes, celebrities and other philanthropists with a vehicle for collecting and distributing charitable assets in support of qualified causes through a simple, responsible and cost-effective platform.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 268 grants below total $29,505,238 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $31,622,686 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,117,448 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $214k
- $10k–50k135 grants · $2.9M
- $50k–250k79 grants · $7.6M
- $250k+28 grants · $19M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTERN OUTREACH CENTER AKA COWBOY CHURCH OF THE VALLEY | $1,953,492 |
| PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND | $1,716,949 |
| MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $1,708,800 |
| DONORSCHOOSEORG | $1,629,700 |
| CATCH THE FIRE DFW MINISTRIES DBA CONSUMED CHURCH | $1,015,382 |
| FIESTA EVENTS INC | $750,000 |
| CATCH THE FIRE BOULDER | $669,897 |
| HOME CHURCH ROSWELL | $659,576 |
| GRIDIRON FOUNDATION | $600,000 |
| HELPS INC | $549,784 |
| PRISON JOURNALISM PROJECT INC | $536,707 |
| TORONTO AIRPORT CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP USA INC | $523,165 |
| WINTER FOUNDATION INC | $520,000 |
| OUR GOD REIGNS MISSION INC | $489,542 |
| FAR AI INC | $486,933 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
76 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 229 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FAFAR AI INC2× · 2022–2024 · $787k · revenue ×16
- MVMI VECINOS3× · 2022–2024 · $614k · revenue +74% · 91% of their budget
- MUMarquette University2× · 2022–2024 · $417k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- SFSCIENCE FOR AMERICA INCone grant, 2022 · $648k · revenue +2% · 100% of their budget
- MOMercury One Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $577k · revenue +92%
- URUC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $291k · revenue +54%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
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.
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The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
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Our mission is to shape the future of finance by developing leaders whose innovation, investment excellence, and human-centered leadership advance the industry and its adjacent sectors.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Third Ward Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 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 21% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
364 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 364 of the 532 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds PRISON JOURNALISM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Catch The Fire-DFW Ministries Corp ↗
- Who funds FAR AI INC ↗
- Who funds FIESTA EVENTS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE FOR AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MI VECINOS ↗
- Who funds Mercury One Inc ↗
- Who funds HELPS Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BEACON ↗
- Who funds TORONTO AIRPORT CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP USA INC ↗
- Who funds Our God Reigns Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds International Missions Project Inc ↗
- Who funds DUKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds ILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONFERENCE USA ↗
- Who funds SUN BELT CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Beat The Streets Inc ↗
- Who funds UC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PPF BENEVOLENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION IN GEORGIA INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Nfl Foundation Inc · Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc · Edward Charles Foundation · National Basketball Players Association Foundation · Good Ventures Foundation · Universal Music All Together Now Foundation Inc · Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Hfsf Grants Management Inc · Founders Pledge Inc · Major League Baseball Players Trust · The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Players Philanthropy Fund Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- V for Victory of Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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