How much does Southern Tennis Association Inc give?

Southern Tennis Association Inc reported 31 itemized grants totaling $8,196,087, out of $8,648,729 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 61 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Southern Tennis Association Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (99%), Community Improvement (0%), Education (0%).

Who are Southern Tennis Association Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Georgia Tennis Association Inc ($12M), North Carolina Tennis Association Inc ($11M), South Carolina Tennis Association Inc ($7.4M).

Does Southern Tennis Association Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Southern Tennis Association Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United States Tennis Association Incorporated, Usta Foundation Incorporated, Louisiana Tennis Association Inc.

Where is Southern Tennis Association Inc based?

Southern Tennis Association Inc is based in GA.

Southern Tennis Association Inc

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· Public charity

Southern Tennis Association Inc

Growing tennis to inspire healthier people and communities everywhere.

$8.6M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$1.8M

Largest

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$55MCommunity Improvement$233kEducation$165kPublic Benefit$147kPhilanthropy$100kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kCrime & Legal$26kYouth Development$22kOther$0

02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 31 grants below total $8,196,087, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,648,729 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $452,642 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k6 grants · $43k
$10k–50k14 grants · $305k
$50k–250k2 grants · $198k
$250k+9 grants · $7.7M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$27M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GEORGIA TENNIS ASSOCIATION	$1,797,091
NORTH CAROLINA TENNIS ASSOCIATION	$1,553,762
SOUTH CAROLINA TENNIS ASSOCIATION	$1,088,971
ALABAMA TENNIS ASSOCIATION	$638,099
TENNESSEE TENNIS ASSOCIATION	$625,141
LOUISIANA TENNIS ASSOCIATION	$621,543
MISSISSIPPI TENNIS ASSOCIATION	$535,665
KENTUCKY TENNIS ASSOCIATION	$424,315
ARKANSAS TENNIS ASSOCIATION	$365,460
USTA FOUNDATION	$100,000
SOUTHERN TENNIS PATRONS FOUNDATION	$97,644
CITY OF OWENSBORO KY	$43,000
VAN DER MEER TENNIS UNIVERSITY	$42,000
MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY	$40,000
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY	$40,000

02The need

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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$54M · 53 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$54M

$870k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+14%

Still filing today

66%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $274k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Recreation & SportsEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther

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

NC
NORTH CAROLINA TENNIS ASSOCIATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +45% · 53% of their budget
SC
SOUTH CAROLINA TENNIS ASSOCIATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $7.4M · revenue +40% · 75% of their budget
AT
ALABAMA TENNIS ASSOCIATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +36% · 50% of their budget

Funded once

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +23%
RD
RECREATION DISTRICT #14 OF ST TAMMANY PARISH
one grant, 2020 · $39k
CO
COUNTY OF MITCHELL
one grant, 2023 · $35k

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.

Crossroads Tennis Association

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Tennis Officials of San Antonio Association

Recreation & Sports

Macon Area Tennis Association Inc

Amateur sports competition (tennis).

Recreation & Sports

Southern Tennis Association Inc

Growing tennis to inspire healthier people and communities everywhere.

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Get a Grip Tennis Association Inc

Youth Development

Robinson Tennis Academy

Youth Development

United States Tennis Association Incorporated

The usta mission is growing tennis to inspire healthier people and communities everywhere.usta is the national governing body for the sport of tennis and the recognized leader in promoting and developing the sport's growth on every level…

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Montana Tennis Association

To promote and develop the growth of tennis in the state of montana.

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United States Tennis Association Inc

To promote the development of tennis as a means of healthful recreation and physical fitness and to foster amateur tennis tournaments and competition.

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Southern Crescent Tennis Association

To promote amateur tennis competition via United States Tennis Association adult and children's league programs, to encourage healthy lifestyles, youth development and community participation trough organized leagues, tennis clinics, and…

Recreation & Sports

United States Tennis Association Inc

The USTA Northern Illinois District is the local district of the USTA Midwest Section with the mission To Promote Develop and Service the Game of Tennis.

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Berks County Tennis Association

The mission of the berks county tennis association (bcta) is to grow and promote the game of tennis in berks county for players of all ages and abilities. a key part of this is their commitment to making tennis accessible and enjoyable for…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Louisiana Tennis Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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

61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 131 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

60/61

Grantees still filing

48/61

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$54,035,314Recreation & Sports$1,263,526Philanthropy$110,000Education$95,000Human Services$41,000Youth Development$16,000Animals$7,500Community Improvement$5,000

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

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.

United States Tennis Association IncorporatedNY93.1× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United States Tennis Association Incorporated · Usta Foundation Incorporated · Louisiana Tennis Association Inc · The Golden Leaf Inc · Georgia Tennis Association Inc · Palmettopride the Governor's Council on Beautification & Litter · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · National Recreation and Park Association · Foundation for the Carolinas · North Carolina Community Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Center for Technology and Civic Life

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 Tennis Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Southern Tennis Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home