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Sports Lawyers Association

To connect established and aspiring leaders in the sports law field and to elevate the expertise and reach of the profession.

$45k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
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02The needRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$135kYouth Development$55kCrime & Legal$10k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $25,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $45,380 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,380 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.
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Leveling the Playing Field$25,000
02The need
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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 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FUTURE FOR KIDS: $30k → 11%BORDER YOUTH TENNIS EXCHANGE: $25k → 19%Kids Enjoy Exercise Now: $25k → 14%Leveling the Playing Field: $25k → 14%SPORTS BUSINESS AND LEADERSHIP ASSOCIATION: $5k → 11%VOICES FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 15%SOCCER IN THE STREETS INC: $25k → 13%GOLD CROWN FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY BOYS CLUB INC: $5k → 11%FORT DUPONT ICE HOCKEY FOUNDATION: $25k → 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 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
Donkor Tennis & Education Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
2
Sno King Youth Club

Youth sports

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3
The Lindy Infante Foundation
Recreation & Sports
4
Young Athlete Foundation
Youth Development
5
Future Soccer Inc

Our vision: a future where all youth have access to a quality coach and mentor, encouraging them to chase their dreams

Recreation & Sports
6
Youth Sports Empowerment Foundation
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7
Moving Forward Together

Sports activities for children

Recreation & Sports
8
Atlanta Youth Soccer Foundation Inc

Provide underpriviledged youth an opportunity to play soccer in a safe, nuturing environment

Recreation & Sports
9
Confidence 2 Succeed
Recreation & Sports
10
Heart 4 Kids

Heart 4 Kids is dedicated to sports activities for childerens.

Youth Development
11
Leadership Development of Our Youth in Sports

Recretion and education for kids

Recreation & Sports
12
The Lock-in Billiards League for Youth
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gold Crown Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Fort Dupont Ice Hockey Foundation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FORT DUPONT ICE HOCKEY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsFORT DUPONT ICE HOCKEY FOUNDATIONSoccer In the Streets Inc: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsSoccer In the Streets IncBORDER YOUTH TENNIS EXCHANGE INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsBORDER YOUTH TENNIS EXCHANGE INCLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INCFUTURE FOR KIDS: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentFUTURE FOR KIDSKIDS ENJOY EXERCISE NOW LOS ANGELES CO DENTONS: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS ENJOY EXERCISE NOW LOS ANGELE…PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentPRINCE GEORGES COUNTY BOYS AND GIR…GOLD CROWN FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyGOLD CROWN FOU…VOICES FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherSPORTS BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · Other
Recreation & Sports$100,000Youth Development$60,000Philanthropy$25,000Other$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFUTURE FOR KIDS: $30,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetSoccer In the Streets Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKIDS ENJOY EXERCISE NOW LOS ANGELES CO DENTONS: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBORDER YOUTH TENNIS EXCHANGE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGOLD CROWN FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPRINCE GEORGES COUNTY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO4.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Sports Lawyers Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sports Lawyers Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 48%
  • Voices for Children Foundation Inc: 48% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 10 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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