· Public charity
The Mickey Lione Jr Fund Inc
The fund is pursuing the mission of perpetuating the memory of mickey lione jr.
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.
The 3 grants below total $33,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $48,152 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,152 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BABE RUTH BASEBALL OF STAMFORD INC | $12,000 |
| STAMFORD STARS SOFTBALL | $12,000 |
| STAMFORD LITTLE LEAGUE | $9,000 |
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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 18% of The Mickey Lione Jr Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
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
- BRBABE RUTH BASEBALL OF STAMFORD INC7× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +335%
- STSTAMFORD TROY SOFTBALL INC5× · 2019–2025 · $28k
- SLSTAMFORD LITTLE LEAGUE6× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +468%
Funded once
- SLSTAMFORD LACROSSE ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
- SJSTAMFORD JUNIOR WRESTLING CLUB INC2× · 2019–2020 · $3k · revenue -59%
- SLSTAMFORD LEGION BASEBALL INC2× · 2019–2020 · $3k · revenue -80%
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.
Youth Sports activities
Youth baseball leagues
Provide an outlet for organized recreational baseball.
To promote a little league baseball/softball program for waterford ct boys and girls between the ages of 5 and 12 years old.
Youth Sports Activities
Youth softball for the towns of Hebron, Andover, & Marlborough, CT.
Provide little league baseball for the residents of south windsor ct ages 5 through 18.
Support youth basetball
Baseball and Softball Summer League
Town Baseball Program
Youth Baseball Organization
Youth baseball league
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 2070113 Stamford National Lione Little League and the most unlike its peers is Activities for Kids Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 14 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 BABE RUTH BASEBALL OF STAMFORD INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STAMFORD TROY SOFTBALL INC ↗
- Who funds STAMFORD LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds 2070113 STAMFORD NATIONAL LIONE LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds STAMFORD NORTH LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds STAMFORD YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STAMFORD JUNIOR WRESTLING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds STAMFORD LEGION BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds STAMFORD YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds STAMFORD YOUTH SOCCER LEAGUE 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 The Mickey Lione Jr Fund 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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