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Tennis for Charity Inc
FUNDING TENNIS PROGRAMS AND PARTNERS THAT ADVANCE AND CHANGE THE LIVES OF YOUNG PEOPLE.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $52k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $114k
- $250k+1 grant · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF MASON | $3,000,000 |
| CINCINNATI TENNIS FOUNDATION | $63,542 |
| CINCINNATI RECREATION FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| INNER-CITY TENNIS PROJECT | $25,000 |
| ACTIVITIES BEYOND THE CLASSROOM | $15,500 |
| INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES | $11,000 |
| BUDDY UP FOR LIFE INC | $3,894 |
| BETHEL AREA TENNIS ASSOCIATION | $3,216 |
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 (FY17–25, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M 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
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER7× · 2017–2023 · $915k · revenue +53%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2022 · $500k · revenue +30%
- CRCINCINNATI RECREATION FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $357k · revenue +64% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
- COCITY OF MASONone grant, 2025 · $3.0M
- BABETHEL AREA TENNIS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2025 · $3k
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.
The cincinnati concours foundation produces a three day weekend of fundraisers to benefit the juvenile arthritis programs and services of the arthritis foundation ohio river valley/great lakes region
Advantage cleveland tennis and education inc. offers educational and recreational opportunities to children in cleveland during an eight week summer program in order to promote hope, healthy living and productive futures.
To offer children and young adults a top quality program that develops, trains and competes as competitive swimmers year-round in a supportive and motivating enviroment that respects, challenges and nurtures them as athletes, students, and…
LUC's mission is to empower underserved students, particularly first-gen students from low-income families, to thrive in education and professional careers. The program addresses critical challenges faced by these students, such as higher…
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.
The purpose of Hillel is to be a center for enriching the lives of Jewish students in the Greater Cincinnati area and to strengthen Jewish identity through social and a broad range of programs and services in an atmosphere that is…
To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.
Unlocking the self-worth and potential of at-risk teens through the transformative power of art, a first-class environment and a character-building culture. Equipping at-risk teens with skills, credentials and pathways to employment.…
Nurture friendships and exchange ideas
Ucp organizes, manages, and delivers the clinical activities and professional medical services of the faculty of the university of cincinnati college of medicine.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Recreation Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Inner City Youth Opportunities. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 12 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 CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Cincinnati Tennis Foundation ↗
- Who funds Activities Beyond the Classroom ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds BUDDY UP FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Cincinnati 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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Usta Foundation Incorporated · 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 Tennis for Charity Inc 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.
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.
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