· Private foundation
Tennis for Charity Inc
FUNDING TENNIS PROGRAMS AND PARTNERS THAT ADVANCE AND CHANGE THE LIVES OF YOUNG PEOPLE.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tennis for Charity Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tennis for Charity Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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