· Public charity
The Players Alliance Inc
Tpa's mission is to address baseball's systemic barriers to equity & inclusion by creating pathways to opportunities on and off the field for an undeniable pipeline of black talent.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k47 grants · $954k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MBP HELPING HANDS INC | $187,000 |
| BRONX CHILDREN MUSEUM | $167,500 |
| JACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC | $120,000 |
| NEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME | $75,000 |
| BALTIMORE URBAN BASEBALL ASSOC | $68,500 |
| JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| RESILIENCE PARTNERS | $50,000 |
| GRANDVIEW HIGH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| BASEBALLGENERATIONS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| MARQUIS GRISSOM BASEBALL ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| YMCA OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA INC | $45,000 |
| DEKANEY HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL BOSTER CLUB | $44,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
30 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $873k 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
- NLNEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM INC2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +72%
- BUBaltimore Urban Baseball Association Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $154k · revenue +56% · 37% of their budget
- TUTuskegee University2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- COCITY OF MONTGOMERYone grant, 2023 · $200k
- GKGLOBAL KIDS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +37%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONSone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +21%
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 Education
Youth Baseball league
National youth baseball competition.
To provide opportunities and exposure by competing at the highest levels in high school baseball. our aim is to help players further their athletic careers, while preparing them to make an immediate impact at the next level. we strive to…
Baseball academy for youth
Baseball academy
Youth Baseball Organization
Fostering youth sports and competition
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Backfield in Motion and the most unlike its peers is Yankee Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
48 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. 48 of the 86 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 MBP HELPING HANDS ↗
- Who funds JACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Baltimore Urban Baseball Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Tuskegee University ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds MGBA Inc ↗
- Who funds Resilience Partners NFP ↗
- Who funds PITCCH IN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds LIFEDRIVEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds BASEBALLGENERATIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361) ↗
- Who funds THE NATASHA WATLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENTORING VIABLE PROSPECTS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds COPPIN STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds Edward Waters University Inc ↗
- Who funds DC GRAYS BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds WALK-OFF CHARITIES OF JAX 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: Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Good Sports Inc · Tickets for Kids Foundation · Major League Baseball Charities Inc · MLB-MLBPA Youth Development Foundation · Strada Education Foundation Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon 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 The Players Alliance 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Edward Waters University Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Baseball Inc — 1% of income from government
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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