· Public charity
USTA Florida Section Foundation Inc
To improve the health and quality of life of Floridians through tennis.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 27 grants below total $911,571 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $998,729 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $87,158 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 $10k19 grants · $111k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $731k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Apollo Beach Racquet and Fitness Club | $223,700 |
| Treasure Bay Golf and Tennis Facility | $214,047 |
| HCC Tennis Complex | $167,878 |
| St Petersburg Tennis Center | $68,473 |
| Plant City Tennis Center | $57,080 |
| Henry L McMullen Tennis Complex | $46,508 |
| Dennis Tennis Serving Love Inc | $13,006 |
| MaliVai Washington Kids Foundation Inc | $10,000 |
| H3-Sports | $8,500 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Tampa Bay | $8,500 |
| OCA Opportunity Community Ability Inc | $7,400 |
| Jones High School Foundation | $7,200 |
| IF You Foundation Corp | $7,200 |
| Serving Up Hope | $7,100 |
| Serving Youth Tennis | $7,040 |
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 (FY22–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $829k 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
- SYSERVING YOUTH TENNIS4× · 2021–2025 · $31k · revenue ×14 · 73% of their budget
- WGWESTCARE GULFCOAST FLORIDA INC4× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +89%
- SVSarah Vande Berg Tennis Foundation Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $26k · revenue +208%
Funded once
- BTBeachview Tennis Club LLCone grant, 2023 · $62k
- PCPanama City Racquet Clubone grant, 2019 · $26k
- TSTHE SCHOOL BOARD OF BROWARD COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $19k
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.
To provide youth in South Florida, who would not otherwise afford the opportunity, the chance to play recreational and potentially competitive tennis. The objective is for young players to reap the benefits of tennis in the areas of…
Tennis for Life Foundation is dedicated to fostering mental wellness, emotional resilience, and suicide prevention through the transformative power of tennis.
Youth mentoring and tennis instruction
Tennista Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering young people through sport-based development initiatives. By combining the transformative power of tennis with education and life skills programs, we promote…
LoveSetMatch inspires and empowers youth through tennis, sports, education, and community-based programs that foster character development, academic achievement, physical fitness, leadership, and healthy lifestyles. Through accessible…
promoting youth tennis in the state of Florida
The National Tennis Foundations Mission is to identify children with economic need regardless of race or economic means, using sport, academic, or mental support programs to give children in need a positive, impactful and nurturing…
The foundation's mission is to enrich the lives of under-resourced youth through tennis and education. the foundation promotes the physical and mental development of underserved youth, in metro atlanta and surrounding counties, through the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Serve Miami Inc and the most unlike its peers is Deta Friends Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 10 years old; the field is 11. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 21% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 58 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 THE HILLSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MaliVai Washington Kids Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TENNIS FOUNDATION OF ST PETERSBURG INC ↗
- Who funds POSH ROCK TENNIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dennis Tennis Serving Love Inc ↗
- Who funds SERVING YOUTH TENNIS ↗
- Who funds WESTCARE GULFCOAST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Sarah Vande Berg Tennis Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SERVING UP HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Gainesville Area Community Tennis Association ↗
- Who funds DELRAY BEACH YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION COR ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds ACEING AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST SERVE MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds BLI LEARNING LABS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds IF YOU FOUNDATION CORP ↗
- Who funds PLANTATION COMMUINITY TENNIS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LOVE SERVING AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds PICKLEB4ALL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds H3-SPORTS ↗
- Who funds PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds Life Academy 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: Usta Foundation Incorporated · United States Tennis Association Incorporated · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Round It Up America Inc · NRA Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)
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 USTA Florida Section Foundation 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.
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Dennis Tennis Serving Love Inc — 0% of income from government
- Promise Inc — 0% 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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