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Southern California Tennis Association Foundation

To raise money and financially support programs and events that advance the enjoyment, awarness, accessibility and participation of tennis to make a positive impact on communities and the lives of people of all ages, ability, ethnicity, and economic background

$38k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$2.2MYouth Development$39kCommunity Improvement$6k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$447k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEENS RISE FOUNDATION$10,000
KERN COMMUNITY TENNIS ASSOCIATION$10,000
MORONGO BASIN TENNIS ASSOCIATION$7,500
LOVE SET MATCH$5,000
T3 TENNIS ON WHEELS$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OJAI VALLEY TENNIS CLIB: $5k → 10%SERVING ADVANTAGE: $11k → 10%TEENS RISE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%Grassroots Junior Tennis Inc: $9k → 11%MORANGO BASIN TENNIS ASSOCIATION: $8k → 14%INGLEWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION: $6k → 14%KERN COMMUNITY TENNIS ASSOCIATION: $15k → 18%USTA FOUNDATION INC: $66k → 9%TEAM8 LLC: $40k → 17%Serving Advantage: $8k → 10%T3 TENNIS ON WHEELS: $5k → 11%MORONGO BASIN TENNIS ASSOCIATION: $8k → 14%Pacific Coast Championships: $8k → 14%KERN COMMUNITY TENNIS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 18%USTA FOUNDATION INC: $65k → 9%YOUTH TENNIS SAN DIEGO: $1.5M → 11%SCTA: $70k → 14%USTA FOUNDATION INC: $40k → 9%Youth Tennis San Diego: $50k → 11%SCTA: $60k → 14%YOUTH TENNIS SAN DIEGO: $33k → 11%LET'S TEACH INC: $6k → 14%SECOND SERVE CLUB INC: $8k → 11%SEMURANA TENNIS ASSOCIATION: $22k → 14%CA TENNIS ASSN FOR UNDERPRIVILEGED YOUTH: $6k → 14%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENNIS ASSOCIATION: $79k → 14%GRYD FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES: $6k → 14%GRYD FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%LOVE SET MATCH: $5k → 14%First Break Academy: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 6 repeat orgs$203k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
14

Total granted

$2.0M
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
-9%

Still filing today

83%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHealthCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • YT
    YOUTH TENNIS SAN DIEGO
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.6M · revenue +292% · 53% of their budget
  • SC
    SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENNIS ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $209k · revenue +61%
  • USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    3× · 2018–2020 · $171k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • TL
    TEAM8 LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
  • MV
    Mountain View Sports & Racquet Club
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -43%
  • ST
    SEMURANA TENNIS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2018 · $22k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Vineyard Youth Tennnisinc
Recreation & Sports
2
Crossroads Tennis Association
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3
Donkor Tennis & Education Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
4
Tennis Officials of San Antonio Association
Recreation & Sports
5
Get a Grip Tennis Association Inc
Youth Development
6
Youth Tennis Advantage

Youth Tennis Advantage mission is to help close opportunity and achievement gaps for under resourced youth in the San Francisco Bay Area through comprehensive tennis academic and enrichment programs seeking to promote the physical…

Recreation & Sports
7
Tennis Club of San Antonio

Tennis Club of San Antonio (TCSA) is a non-profit diversity and inclusion organization devoted to promoting diversity in tennis in the San Antonio area all while bringing people together to make a difference in the community and lives of…

Recreation & Sports
8
California Table Tennis

California table tennis is a professionally run athletics club designed for table tennis enthusiasts and provides an environment in which members can improve their games under the tutelage of world class coaches.

Recreation & Sports
9
Love & Love Tennis Foundation Inc

To enhance and dissiminate the sports of tennis by being able to share our vision with all who like to play or watch the game. raising funds for junior tennis in the desert and teaching our youth to fully enjoy the sports. matching tennis…

Youth Development
10
Tennis for Life

Tennis for Life Foundation is dedicated to fostering mental wellness, emotional resilience, and suicide prevention through the transformative power of tennis.

Health
11
La Open Table Tennis

The organization hosts a table tennis tournament yearly which provides facilities and spaces for players of various levels and ages to compete in table tennis games. We are working in accordance with USA Table Tennis Association with…

Recreation & Sports
12
Pasadena Tennis Association Inc

To promote tennis to people of all ages and abilities regardless of race or economic backgrounds in and through the sport of tennis.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Usta Foundation Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Inglewood Community Services Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUTH TENNIS SAN DIEGO: $1,564,614 · OtherYOUTH TENNIS SAN DIEGO+11 more: $141,000 · Other+11 moreSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENNIS ASSOCIATION: $209,000 · Recreation & SportsSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TE…USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $171,250 · Recreation & SportsUSTA FOUNDATION INCORP…Mountain View Sports & Racquet Club: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsMountain View Sports &…OJAI VALLEY TENNIS CLUB INC: $20,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $10,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE GRYD FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentFirst Break Academy: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES: $5,500 · Youth DevelopmentServing Advantage Inc: $18,000 · HealthTEENS RISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationINGLEWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION: $5,500 · Community Improvement
Other$1,705,614Recreation & Sports$435,750Youth Development$28,000Health$18,000Education$10,000Community Improvement$5,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUTH TENNIS SAN DIEGO: $1,564,614 over 3y, 53% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENNIS ASSOCIATION: $209,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $171,250 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetKERN COMMUNITY TENNIS ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetOJAI VALLEY TENNIS CLUB INC: $20,000 over 1y, 85% of budgetServing Advantage Inc: $18,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetTHE GRYD FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFirst Break Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTEENS RISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetLETS TEACH INC: $5,500 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE SET MATCH: $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Usta Foundation Incor…National Philanthropi…Amazonsmile Foundation
Usta Foundation IncorporatedNY26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Usta Foundation Incorporated · National Philanthropic Trust · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Southern California Tennis Association Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Southern California Tennis Association Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Southern California Tennis Association Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Southern California Tennis Association Foundation 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, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, 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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