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Usta Foundation Incorporated

To bring tennis & education together to change lives, with particular emphasis on under-resourced youth.

$9.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
140
Grants FY2024still arriving
42
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$33MYouth Development$3.6MEducation$1.5MHealth$607kCommunity Improvement$386kHuman Services$151kReligion$105kPhilanthropy$74kOther$0
02FY2024 · 140 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 140 grants below total $7,924,366, the rows itemized in this filing. The $9,087,391 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,163,025 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $98k
  • $10k–50k82 grants · $2.0M
  • $50k–250k43 grants · $4.2M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
$31,990
Median grant
42
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lulu'S Place Inc$1,000,000
Marcy Tennis Club Inc$316,900
Junior Tennis Champions Center$301,855
Metropolitan Tennis And Education Group$194,200
Usta Player Development Inc$184,000
NYJTL$166,850
Innercity Tennis Foundation$160,860
Youth Development Association Inc$151,300
Mach Academy$150,900
Dallas Tennis Association$147,750
Harlem Junior Tennis And Education Program Inc$129,500
First Serve OKC Foundation$122,081
First Serve-New Mexico Inc$114,100
Sportsmen'S Tennis Club Enrichment Center$113,250
Todd Martin Development Fund$111,700
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $961k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YMCA Of Greater Rochester: $20k → 14%Bullard Family Foundation Inc: $15k → 13%Greater Enrichment Program Inc: $18k → 10%NJTL Of Bennington Vt Inc: $241k → 11%Central Lincoln County Young Mens Christian Associ: $15k → 9%YMCA Of Greater Rochester: $18k → 14%Youth At Heart Inc: $15k → 15%Love Serving Autism Inc: $41k → 11%Bullard Family Foundation Inc: $10k → 13%Greater Enrichment Program Inc: $9k → 10%NJTL Of Bennington VT Inc: $102k → 11%Central Lincoln County Young Mens Christian Associ: $10k → 9%YMCA of Greater Rochester: $10k → 14%Youth At Heart Inc: $14k → 15%NJTL of Bennington VT Inc: $58k → 11%Central Lincoln County Young Mens Christian: $10k → 9%Ymca Of Greater Rochester: $9k → 14%Love Serving Autism Inc: $35k → 11%NJTL Of Bennington VT Inc: $57k → 11%Central Lincoln Cty Young Mens Christian Assoc: $8k → 9%NJTL Of Bennington VT Inc: $42k → 9%NJTL of Bennington VT Inc: $53k → 11%Love Serving Autism Inc: $18k → 11%NJTL of Bennington VT Inc: $26k → 11%Nehemiah Gateway Community Development Corporation: $40k → 10%Nehemiah Gateway Comm Development Corp: $18k → 10%Nehemiah Gateway Community Development Corporation: $16k → 10%Nehemiah Gateway Community Development Corp: $10k → 10%Nehemiah Gateway Community Development Corporation: $10k → 10%The James Blake Foundation: $10k → 17%Nehemiah Gateway Community Dev Corp: $8k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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VT
NH
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
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CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$38M · 172 repeat orgs$862k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

172 repeat relationships: 129 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

172
52

Total granted

$38M
$574k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+34%

Still filing today

83%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $288k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • LP
    LULU'S PLACE INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $3.0M · revenue ×12 · 50% of their budget
  • JT
    JUNIOR TENNIS CHAMPIONS CENTER INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $969k · revenue +87%
  • FS
    FIRST SERVE MIAMI INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $903k · revenue +91% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • NC
    NWA CHALLENGE FOR HOPE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +34% · 45% of their budget
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH OAKLAND COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $22k · revenue +49%
  • AP
    ASBURY PARK TENNIS INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2023 · $22k
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
Donkor Tennis & Education Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
2
Robinson Tennis Academy
Youth Development
3
Tennis for Life

Tennis for Life Foundation is dedicated to fostering mental wellness, emotional resilience, and suicide prevention through the transformative power of tennis.

Health
4
Central Texas Tennis Association

Present and teach tennis, primarily to inner city kids yet allowing opportunity for all kids to participate; and many do. We teach tennis, but our main focus is on the total development of our youth. We try to instill the many attributes…

Recreation & Sports
5
Vineyard Youth Tennnisinc
Recreation & Sports
6
Crossroads Tennis Association
—
7
Smart Activities for Fitness and Education Safe

Youth mentoring and tennis instruction

—
8
Deta Friends Inc

helping children with disabilities learn

Recreation & Sports
9
Tennista Foundation

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…

Recreation & Sports
10
Montgomery County Tennis & Education Foundation

Montgomery County Tennis Education Foundation MCTEF is committed to providing healthy recreational and educational opportunities to underserved Montgomery County youth using tennis as the vehicle to teach sportmanship, self-discipline, and…

Recreation & Sports
11
Blue Sky Tennis

To create opportunities to play tennis in under-resourced communities, and to promote health and well-being through tennis.

Recreation & Sports
12
Tennis Officials of San Antonio Association
Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Community Tennis Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Betty Kanuha Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

194 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. 194 of the 238 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.

45
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
79
Early backer (in before they grew)
183/194
Grantees still filing
137/194
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LULU'S PLACE INC: $3,010,000 · Recreation & SportsLULU'S PLACE INCUSTA PLAYER DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED: $1,164,204 · Recreation & SportsMetropolitan Tennis & Education Group: $1,138,617 · Recreation & SportsJUNIOR TENNIS CHAMPIONS CENTER INC: $969,155 · Recreation & SportsDALLAS TENNIS ASSOCIATION: $849,515 · Recreation & Sports+86 more: $17,064,790 · Recreation & Sports+86 moreFIRST SERVE MIAMI INC: $902,918 · OtherFIRST SERVE MIAMI INCNEW YORK JUNIOR TENNIS LEAGUE INC: $900,759 · OtherNEW YORK JUNIOR TENNIS LEA…Legacy Youth Tennis And Education Inc: $782,809 · OtherLegacy Youth Tennis And Ed…HARLEM JUNIOR TENNIS AND EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $728,234 · OtherHARLEM JUNIOR TENNIS AND E…THE SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS & ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $605,325 · OtherTHE SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS & E…YOUTH TENNIS SAN DIEGO: $519,385 · OtherYOUTH TENNIS SAN DIEGOGTP FOUNDATION: $508,450 · OtherGTP FOUNDATIONHOUSTON TENNIS ASSOCIATION INC: $478,700 · OtherAS & ACES: $417,800 · OtherDown the Line and Beyond Foundation: $311,243 · Other+52 more: $2,920,669 · Other+52 moreTODD MARTIN DEVELOPMENT FUND: $331,385 · Youth DevelopmentYouth Development Association: $327,485 · Youth DevelopmentWASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $282,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEW HYTES INC: $277,000 · Youth DevelopmentADVANTAGE LANCASTER: $249,200 · Youth Development40 LOVE FOUNDATION: $210,735 · Youth DevelopmentFirst Break Academy: $157,000 · Youth DevelopmentANDREW S RODDICK FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentLenny Simpson Tennis and Education Fund: $94,237 · Youth Development+10 more: $306,700 · Youth DevelopmentPETE BROWN JUNIOR TENNIS PROGRAM: $304,677 · EducationFamily Biz Builder: $264,100 · EducationNATIONAL JUNIOR TENNIS AND EDUCATION OF FORT COLLINS: $234,100 · EducationDANBURY GRASSROOTS ACADEMY INC: $152,500 · EducationPASADENA TENNIS ASSOCIATION INC: $142,600 · EducationDELRAY BEACH YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION COR: $129,000 · EducationJames Lewis Education and Tennis Foundation Incorporated: $112,483 · EducationTEENS RISE FOUNDATION: $81,160 · Education+7 more: $194,145 · EducationNJTL OF BENNINGTON VT INC: $577,281 · Human ServicesNEHEMIAH GATEWAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $101,250 · Human ServicesLOVE SERVING AUTISM INC: $93,100 · Human ServicesYMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368): $56,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF BATTLEFIELD PARK FOUNDATION INC: $50,200 · Human ServicesCentral Lincoln County Young Mens Christian Association Inc: $42,500 · Human Services+3 more: $80,190 · Human ServicesMARTY HENNESSY INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $513,800 · HealthBUDDY UP FOR LIFE INC: $87,450 · HealthServing Advantage Inc: $38,600 · HealthFrontline Outreach Inc: $292,474 · Community Improvement
Recreation & Sports$24,196,281Other$9,076,292Youth Development$2,345,742Education$1,614,765Human Services$1,001,021Health$639,850Community Improvement$292,474

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLULU'S PLACE INC: $3,010,000 over 4y, 50% of budgetUSTA PLAYER DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED: $1,164,204 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetMetropolitan Tennis & Education Group: $1,138,617 over 7y, 41% of budgetJUNIOR TENNIS CHAMPIONS CENTER INC: $969,155 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetFIRST SERVE MIAMI INC: $902,918 over 6y, 39% of budgetNEW YORK JUNIOR TENNIS LEAGUE INC: $900,759 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetDALLAS TENNIS ASSOCIATION: $849,515 over 7y, 16% of budgetINNERCITY TENNIS FOUNDATION: $804,635 over 7y, 8.9% of budgetLegacy Youth Tennis And Education Inc: $782,809 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetHARLEM JUNIOR TENNIS AND EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $728,234 over 7y, 11% of budgetKINGS COUNTY TENNIS LEAGUE: $670,359 over 6y, 24% of budgetMaliVai Washington Kids Foundation Inc: $625,425 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetTHE SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS & ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $605,325 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetSouth Atlanta Community Tennis: $602,175 over 7y, 98% of budgetMACH ACADEMY INC: $596,300 over 7y, 26% of budgetNJTL OF BENNINGTON VT INC: $577,281 over 7y, 36% of budgetSEATTLE TENNIS & EDUCATION: $572,250 over 7y, 63% of budgetTHE ACE PROJECT INC: $568,979 over 6y, 24% of budgetSLOANE STEPHENS FOUNDATION INC: $559,509 over 6y, 28% of budgetYOUTH TENNIS SAN DIEGO: $519,385 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetPORTLAND TENNIS & EDUCATION: $518,850 over 7y, 11% of budgetMARTY HENNESSY INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $513,800 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetTENACITY INC: $513,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetGTP FOUNDATION: $508,450 over 7y, 25% of budgetHOUSTON TENNIS ASSOCIATION INC: $478,700 over 7y, 13% of budgetGREATER POTTSTOWN TENNIS & LEARNING ASSOCIATION: $423,719 over 7y, 22% of budgetEAST PALO ALTO TENNIS & TUTORING: $419,000 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetAS & ACES: $417,800 over 7y, 23% of budgetNATIONAL JUNIOR TENNIS & LEARNING OF TRENTON INC: $407,535 over 7y, 12% of budgetFIRST SERVE-NM INC: $406,100 over 7y, 11% of budgetINTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED: $390,200 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBORDER YOUTH TENNIS EXCHANGE INC: $387,350 over 7y, 31% of budgetADVANTAGE CLEVELAND TENNIS AND EDUCATION INC: $372,700 over 7y, 26% of budgetRODNEY STREET TENNIS AND TUTORING ASSOCIATION INC: $371,700 over 7y, 16% of budgetYOUTH TENNIS ADVANTAGE: $355,600 over 7y, 19% of budgetGainesville Area Community Tennis Association: $340,900 over 7y, 12% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY TENNIS FOUNDATION: $334,429 over 7y, 27% of budgetTODD MARTIN DEVELOPMENT FUND: $331,385 over 7y, 19% of budgetADVANTAGE KIDS: $322,700 over 7y, 38% of budgetTENNIS MEMPHIS INC: $318,700 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetCAPITAL REGION YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION INC: $318,650 over 7y, 22% of budgetNORWALKSTAMFORD GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION INC: $312,500 over 7y, 7.3% of budgetDown the Line and Beyond Foundation: $311,243 over 3y, 92% of budgetPETE BROWN JUNIOR TENNIS PROGRAM: $304,677 over 7y, 31% of budgetFRED WELLS TENNIS AND EDUCATION CENTER INC: $296,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetFrontline Outreach Inc: $292,474 over 5y, 11% of budgetXS Tennis and Education Foundation: $290,100 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetWASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $282,000 over 6y, 2.2% 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.

  • Who funds LULU'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds USTA PLAYER DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Tennis & Education Group ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR TENNIS CHAMPIONS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST SERVE MIAMI INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK JUNIOR TENNIS LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS TENNIS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds INNERCITY TENNIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Legacy Youth Tennis And Education Inc ↗
  • Who funds HARLEM JUNIOR TENNIS AND EDUCATION PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds KINGS COUNTY TENNIS LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds MaliVai Washington Kids Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS & ENRICHMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds South Atlanta Community Tennis ↗
  • Who funds MACH ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds NJTL OF BENNINGTON VT INC ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE TENNIS & EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ACE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds SLOANE STEPHENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH TENNIS SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND TENNIS & EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds MARTY HENNESSY INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TENACITY INC ↗
  • Who funds GTP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON TENNIS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER POTTSTOWN TENNIS & LEARNING ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds EAST PALO ALTO TENNIS & TUTORING ↗
  • Who funds AS & ACES ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JUNIOR TENNIS & LEARNING OF TRENTON INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST SERVE-NM INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds BORDER YOUTH TENNIS EXCHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds ADVANTAGE CLEVELAND TENNIS AND EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RODNEY STREET TENNIS AND TUTORING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH TENNIS ADVANTAGE ↗
  • Who funds Gainesville Area Community Tennis Association ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY TENNIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TODD MARTIN DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
  • Who funds Youth Development Association ↗
  • Who funds ADVANTAGE KIDS ↗

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.

United States Tennis Association IncorporatedNY71.2× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United States Tennis Association Incorporated · Womens Sports Foundation · Southern Tennis Association Inc · Usta Midwest Tennis & Education Foundation Inc · Laureus Sport for Good Foundation USA · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · USTA Florida Section Foundation Inc · Southern California Tennis Association Foundation · Usta New England Inc · United States Tennis Association- Middle States Section · Bryan Brothers Foundation Inc · Usta Eastern Inc

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 Usta Foundation Incorporated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Usta Foundation Incorporated. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 230%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 38%
  • Urban League of Greater Springfield Inc: 81% of income from government
  • Asbury Park Tennis Initiative: 38% of income from government
  • Nehemiah Gateway Community Development Corporation: 26% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
23get no government money at all
45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 238 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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