· Public charity
Ross Initiative in Sports for Equality
RISE is a nonprofit organization founded in 2015 that uses the power of sports to improve race relations and promote social progress.
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 10 grants below total $150,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $173,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $23,500 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Project Blue | $15,000 |
| Philadelphia PAL | $15,000 |
| YMCA of Greater Cleveland | $15,000 |
| Like Nother | $15,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Broward County | $15,000 |
| Atlanta Police Athletic LeagueInc | $15,000 |
| United African Basketball League | $15,000 |
| NYC National Sports Zone Foundation | $15,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Boston | $15,000 |
| Phyllis Wheatley | $15,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +14% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- WSWomens Sports Foundation5× · 2018–2023 · $65k · revenue +297%
- APATLANTA POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUEINC3× · 2022–2024 · $53k · revenue +10%
- LTLOVE THY NEIGHBOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & OPPORTUNITY CORP3× · 2020–2022 · $45k · revenue +214%
Funded once
- DEDON'T EVER GIVE UP INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +145%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $15k
- LTLove Thy Neighborone grant, 2023 · $15k
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.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens
The mission of the boys & girls club of palm beach county is to inspire and assist all young people, especially those who need them most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
The mission of the Boys & Girls Club of Harlem is to provide access and opportunities for youth to reach their full potential as responsible members of the community.
Police athletic league, together with nypd and the law enforcement community, supports and inspires new york city youth to realize their full individual potential as productive members of society.
Empower the youth of new york city through basketball, providing them with academic enrichment, career development, and a strong sense of community to unlock their full potential
To provide services and programs for children.
To provide youth with sports, educational and civic direction helping them build the character and self-esteem they need to reach their full potential and value in society.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those most in need of our services, to realize and develop their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens in a global society.
To enable young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. for more information visit www.boysandgirls.org.
Provide a competitive and supportive environment for youth athletes to develop as basketball players and learn important life lessons along the way.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boys & Girls Clubs of St Thomas St John Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 31 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
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 Womens Sports Foundation ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUEINC ↗
- Who funds DON'T EVER GIVE UP INC ↗
- Who funds Phyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LOVE THY NEIGHBOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & OPPORTUNITY CORP ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LikeNOther Foundation ↗
- Who funds SPORTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BLUE CORPS ↗
- Who funds HARLEM JUNIOR TENNIS AND EDUCATION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds UNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST THOMAS ST JOHN INC ↗
- Who funds NYC Together 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: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ross Initiative in Sports for Equality 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.
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% 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.