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T-Mobile USA Foundation at a glance

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T-Mobile USA Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$7.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$7.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$31MYouth Development$4.8MEducation$673kHuman Services$447kCivil Rights$345kHealth$331kArts & Culture$211kRecreation & Sports$162kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $175k
  • $250k+1 grant · $7.2M
$175,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION$7,206,980
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA$175,000
CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$46,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$28,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $248k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Capable Kids Foundation: $10k → 27%A Kid's Place of Tampa Bay Inc: $10k → 13%CLEAN LOVE PROJECT INC: $5k → 21%UNBOUND: $20k → 16%Family Building Blocks: $5k → 14%St Mary's Child Center: $7k → 16%Casa Central: $5k → 14%Northern Children's Services: $5k → 22%Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico: $5k → 14%The Kitchen: $5k → 15%Animals as Natural Therapy: $6k → 12%Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly: $7k → 14%Women's and Childrens Alliance: $5k → 8%CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $29k → 14%PROJECT 100 INC: $10k → 13%The Children's Center of Wayne County Inc: $10k → 13%VETERANS LYFE SERVICES: $5k → 13%Bellevue LifeSpring: $15k → 9%THE HARBOUR INC: $5k → 13%YMCA of Greater Seattle: $5k → 13%RYTHER: $10k → 9%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE GREATER TW: $5k → 13%HopeLink: $25k → 9%RICHMOND FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%USA PARENT TO PARENT: $5k → 13%JACKSON Y-CENTER INC: $5k → 13%JACKSON Y-CENTER INC: $5k → 13%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE PIKES PEAK: $5k → 13%Harmony House: $5k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$36M · 15 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
230

Total granted

$36M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-21%
+37%

Still filing today

73%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationRecreation & SportsHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    2× · 2019–2024 · $975k · revenue +66%
  • CITY YEAR INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $245k · revenue +0%
  • WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS
    2× · 2019–2020 · $100k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • AA
    AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $405k · revenue +27%
  • Chinese for Affirmative Action
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -60%
  • NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -54%
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.

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Nexus Youth and Families

Restoring hope, building futures, and strengthening our communities through programs with youth, young adults and families. we support the behavioral health of at-risk and in-crisis youth across the greater south king county area. we take…

Human Services
2
Boys & Girls Club of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc

The boys & girls clubs of the greater chippewa valley's mission is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, caring citizens.

Youth Development
3
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
4
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St Louis Inc

To inspire and enable youth ages 6 to 18 to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. the boys and girls clubs of greater st. louis provides recreational, athletic and educational facilities for youth in…

Youth Development
5
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
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Bellevue Boys & Girls Clubs Inc

To inspire and enable all young people, and especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens. we provide prevention-focused programming for youth, ages 2-19, within our core…

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Boys & Girls Clubs of the North Valley

To inspire and enable all young people to reach their full potential as caring, productive, and responsible citizens.

Youth Development
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Ymca of Southern Arizona

Ymca of southern arizona is dedicated to improving the quality of human life and helping all people realize their fullest potential through the development of spirit, mind and body. we are a powerful association of men, women and children,…

Human Services
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Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington and Affiliate

The mission of boys and girls clubs of greater washington is to help boys and girls of all backgrounds, especially those who need us most, build confidence, develop character and acquire the skills needed to become productive,…

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Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana

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Youth Development
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Boys & Girls Clubs of Oklahoma County Inc

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most to reach their full potential as responsible, caring, and productive citizens.

Youth Development
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Washington State Boys & Girls Clubs Asso

To promote exclusively the social welfare of boys and girls in washington; to provide guidance and to promote the health, social, educational, vocational, character, and cultural development of boys and girls in washington without regard…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee; the most unlike its peers is Para La Naturaleza Inc. 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

183 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. 183 of the 251 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
53
Early backer (in before they grew)
175/183
Grantees still filing
135/183
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION: $30,953,710 · OtherAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATIONASHOKA YOUTH VENTURE: $3,064,688 · OtherASHOKA YOUTH VENTURE+134 more: $2,174,875 · Other+134 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $975,000 · Youth Development+11 more: $113,000 · Youth DevelopmentChinese for Affirmative Action: $150,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $150,000 · Civil RightsGLSEN INC: $40,000 · Civil RightsWASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS: $100,000 · PhilanthropySEATTLE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Philanthropy22KILL: $20,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyHOPELINK: $50,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $28,500 · Human ServicesUnbound: $20,000 · Human ServicesOVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE: $15,000 · Human ServicesRYTHER: $10,000 · Human ServicesA KID'S PLACE OF TAMPA BAY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesJackson YMCA Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesCAPABLE KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT 100 INC: $10,000 · Human Services+14 more: $74,500 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $75,000 · Arts & CultureBELLEVUE ART MUSEUM: $65,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS THEATER CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC CHANGING LIVES: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureYEAR UP INC: $40,000 · EducationNEXTUP INC (F/K/A NETWORK OF EXECUTIVE WOMEN INC): $20,000 · EducationACADEMIAS LA PAZ: $13,000 · EducationPROPEL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $12,000 · EducationScholarCHIPS Inc: $10,000 · EducationNEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER NETWORK INC: $10,000 · EducationWINNING FUTURES: $5,000 · EducationKIA KIMA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · EducationBLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC: $5,000 · EducationJubilee REACH: $5,000 · Education
Other$36,193,273Youth Development$1,088,000Civil Rights$340,000Philanthropy$270,000Human Services$248,000Arts & Culture$166,000Education$125,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $975,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $405,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $245,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS: $100,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $75,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBELLEVUE ART MUSEUM: $65,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budget1MILLION PROJECT FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS WASHINGTON: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHOPELINK: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MISSION CONTINUES: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGLSEN INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOLDIERS' ANGELS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $28,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $26,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget22KILL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKeep Colorado Springs Beautiful Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnbound: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEXTUP INC (F/K/A NETWORK OF EXECUTIVE WOMEN INC): $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEXTRA BASES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY: $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStandUp for Kids: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHumane Society of North Texas: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACADEMIAS LA PAZ: $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROPEL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVOICES FOR CASA CHILDREN INC: $12,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDALLAS THEATER CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetScholarCHIPS Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetThe Talented Youth NFFTY National Film Festival for Talented Yout: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRYTHER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA KID'S PLACE OF TAMPA BAY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Boys & Girls Clubs of…Puget Sound Energy Fo…The Norcliffe Foundat…Inspire Brands Founda…Boys & Girls Clubs of…M J Murdock Charitabl…Carmax FoundationSeattle FoundationLamb Weston Charitabl…Rite Aid Healthy Futu…Enterprise Holdings F…United Way of King Co…
Boys & Girls Clubs of AmericaGA26.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Inspire Brands Foundation Inc · Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Carmax Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · United Way of King County

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 T-Mobile USA Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from T-Mobile USA Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Family Building Blocks Inc: 68% of income from government
  • United Way of Broward County Inc: 27% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley: 6% of income from government
  • The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore: 2% of income from government
  • Beat the Odds Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
80report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
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How do I get to T-Mobile USA Foundation?

Find your warmest path to T-Mobile USA 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 251 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-PF 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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