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The Mickey Lione Jr Fund Inc

The fund is pursuing the mission of perpetuating the memory of mickey lione jr.

$40k
Granted FY2026still arriving
2
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$139kEducation$31kYouth Development$4k
02FY2026 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $19,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $39,970 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,970 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.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$845k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BABE RUTH BASEBALL OF STAMFORD INC$12,000
STAMFORD STARS SOFTBALL$7,000
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.

None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.

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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 18% of The Mickey Lione Jr Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Mickey Lione Jr Fund Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$151k · 8 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2026, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$151k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+36%

Still filing today

38%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • BR
    BABE RUTH BASEBALL OF STAMFORD INC
    8× · 2017–2026 · $47k · revenue +335%
  • ST
    STAMFORD TROY SOFTBALL INC
    6× · 2019–2026 · $35k
  • SL
    STAMFORD LITTLE LEAGUE
    6× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +468%

Funded once

  • SL
    STAMFORD LACROSSE ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • SJ
    STAMFORD JUNIOR WRESTLING CLUB INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $3k · revenue -59%
  • SL
    STAMFORD LEGION BASEBALL INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $3k · revenue -80%
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.

1
Stratford High School Lacrosse

Youth Sports activities

Recreation & Sports
2
Southington Southern Youth Athletic

Youth baseball leagues

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3
Stratford Baseball Association Inc

Provide an outlet for organized recreational baseball.

—
4
The Waterford Little League Inc

To promote a little league baseball/softball program for waterford ct boys and girls between the ages of 5 and 12 years old.

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5
Sturbridge Little League

Youth Sports Activities

Recreation & Sports
6
Hamr Softball Inc

Youth softball for the towns of Hebron, Andover, & Marlborough, CT.

Recreation & Sports
7
South Windsor Little League Inc

Provide little league baseball for the residents of south windsor ct ages 5 through 18.

—
8
The Stampede Inc

Support youth basetball

—
9
Fairfield Youth League

Baseball and Softball Summer League

Recreation & Sports
10
Weston Ct Baseball & Softball Association Inc

Town Baseball Program

—
11
The Babe Ruth League of Norwalk Inc

Youth Baseball Organization

—
12
Steubenville Baseball Association

Youth baseball league

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 2070113 Stamford National Lione Little League; 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.
05the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 14 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BABE RUTH BASEBALL OF STAMFORD INC: $47,000 · Recreation & SportsBABE RUTH BASEBALL OF STAMFORD INCSTAMFORD TROY SOFTBALL INC: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsSTAMFORD TROY SOFTBALL INC+3 more: $7,500 · Recreation & Sports+3 moreSTAMFORD LITTLE LEAGUE: $21,500 · OtherSTAMFORD LITTLE LEAGUE2070113 STAMFORD NATIONAL LIONE LITTLE LEAGUE: $13,000 · Other2070113 STAMFORD NATIONAL LIONE LITTLE LEA…STAMFORD NORTH LITTLE LEAGUE: $10,500 · OtherSTAMFORD NORTH LITTLE LEAGUEACTIVITIES FOR KIDS INC: $9,000 · OtherACTIVITIES FOR KIDS INCSTAMFORD BABE RUTH SOFTBALL: $8,000 · OtherSTAMFORD BABE RUTH SOFTBALLSTAMFORD YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · OtherSTAMFORD YOUTH FOUNDATION INCSTAMFORD LACROSSE ASSOCIATION: $2,500 · Other+1 more: $500 · OtherFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $30,616 · PhilanthropyFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S…
Recreation & Sports$89,500Other$72,000Philanthropy$30,616

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBABE RUTH BASEBALL OF STAMFORD INC: $47,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetSTAMFORD TROY SOFTBALL INC: $35,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $30,616 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTAMFORD LITTLE LEAGUE: $21,500 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetSTAMFORD NORTH LITTLE LEAGUE: $10,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetACTIVITIES FOR KIDS INC: $9,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetSTAMFORD YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetSTAMFORD JUNIOR WRESTLING CLUB INC: $2,500 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetSTAMFORD LEGION BASEBALL INC: $2,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSTAMFORD YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOC INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTAMFORD YOUTH SOCCER LEAGUE INC: $500 over 2y, 0.1% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 The Mickey Lione Jr Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mickey Lione Jr Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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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    Find your warmest path to The Mickey Lione Jr Fund Inc 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 14 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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