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USTA Northern

Our mission is to promote and develop the growth of tennis in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and northwestern Wisconsin.

$246k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$860kEducation$45kCrime & Legal$27kYouth Development$10kPublic Benefit$10kHuman Services$10kPhilanthropy$8k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $164,625, the rows itemized in this filing. The $246,095 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $81,470 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $149k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Prior Lakes Athletics for Youth$30,000
Community Indoor Tennis Center dba Huether Family Match Pointe$25,000
Fred Wells Tennis & Education Center Inc$23,300
St Paul Urban Tennis$17,810
City of Vermillion Parks and Recreation$15,000
University of Northwestern - St Paul$15,000
InnerCity Tennis$13,150
Picklebarn LLC$10,000
South St Paul Parks & Recreation$9,500
John and Fay Menard YMCA Tennis Center$5,865
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%JOHN AND FAY MENARD YMCA TENNIS CTR: $13k → 12%John and Fay Menard YMCA Tennis: $7k → 12%John And Fay Menard Ymca Tennis Ctr: $6k → 12%John and Fay Menard YMCA Tennis Center: $6k → 12%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.
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$661k · 13 repeat orgs$303k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
23

Total granted

$661k
$233k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
0%

Still filing today

46%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SP
    ST PAUL URBAN TENNIS PROGRAM
    7× · 2018–2025 · $165k · revenue +108%
  • FW
    FRED WELLS TENNIS AND EDUCATION CENTER INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $106k · revenue +72%
  • IT
    INNERCITY TENNIS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2025 · $81k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • VC
    VALLEY CITY PARK DISTRICT
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • KC
    KY Community Athletic Consulting LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • PR
    PARK RAPIDS TENNIS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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
Usta Northern

Our mission is to promote and develop the growth of tennis in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and northwestern Wisconsin.

Human Services
2
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

See schedule o.the minnesota intercollegiate athletic conference strives to guide, govern, and support fair and equitable athletic competition, promote student-athlete well-being among its members, and celebrate combined excellence and…

Education
3
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
4
The Midwest Conference Inc

The midwest conference is an interstate league among similarly minded institutions - those which give primary attention to the educational purposes of athletics. member institutions believe that participation in sport enhances the…

Recreation & Sports
5
Ucf Athletics Association Inc

To provide opportunity to young people and develop leaders for industry, philanthropy, education and the community through the intercollegiate athletic experience.

Education
6
Minnesota State High School League

The Minnesota State High School League provides educational opportunities for students through interscholastic athletic and fine arts programs and provides leadership and support for member schools. The organization conducts the state…

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7
Nebraska Wesleyan University

Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.

Education
8
St Louis District Tennis Association

Provide recreational tennis and pickleball for adults and youth

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9
Urban Squash Twin Cities

Empowering marginalized youth to break barriers and build futures through sports, study and self-development.

Recreation & Sports
10
United States Tennis Association Inc

The Mission of the Wisconsin Tennis Association is to promote develop and service the game of tennis in the USTA Wisconsin District. Our charter is to focus on the establishment of competitive developmental educational and recreational…

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11
United States Tennis Association Southwest Section Inc

Our mission is to promote and develop the growth of tennis in the southwest

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12
Tennis Officials of San Antonio Association
Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Innercity Tennis Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Minneapolis Community Clay Courts. 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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 41 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/18
Grantees still filing
10/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST PAUL URBAN TENNIS PROGRAM: $165,043 · Recreation & SportsST PAUL URBAN TENNIS PROGRAMFRED WELLS TENNIS AND EDUCATION CENTER INC: $105,930 · Recreation & SportsFRED WELLS TENNIS AND EDUCATION CENTER INCINNERCITY TENNIS FOUNDATION: $81,223 · Recreation & SportsINNERCITY TENNIS FOUNDATIONCommunity Indoor Tennis Center dba Huether Family Match Pointe: $41,600 · Recreation & SportsCommunity Indoor Tennis Center dba Huether Family …DELANO ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB INC: $15,000 · Recreation & Sports+3 more: $27,475 · Recreation & Sports+3 moreMINNEAPOLIS CLAY COURTS: $50,983 · OtherMINNEAPOLIS CLAY COURTSKENWOOD ISLES TENNIS ASSOCIATION INC: $35,183 · OtherKENWOOD ISLES TENNIS ASSOCIATION INCSAINT PAUL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $30,390 · OtherSAINT PAUL PUBLIC SCHOOLSVALLEY CITY PARK DISTRICT: $25,000 · OtherVALLEY CITY PARK DISTRICTBLACK HILLS TENNIS ASSOCIATION INC: $24,496 · OtherBLACK HILLS TENNIS ASSOCIATION INCStonewall Kickball Minneapolis: $20,000 · OtherSouth St Paul Parks & Recreation: $17,225 · OtherKY Community Athletic Consulting LLC: $15,200 · OtherPARK RAPIDS TENNIS ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · OtherCity of Vermillion Parks and Recreation: $15,000 · Other+16 more: $135,041 · Other+16 moreYouthprise: $46,800 · EducationYouthpriseUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL: $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $10,210 · EducationTRUSTEES O…AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · EducationAUGUSTANA …GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $7,402 · EducationGUSTAVUS A…THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHIPPEWA VALLEY: $31,933 · Human ServicesPRIOR LAKE ATHLETICS FOR YOUTH: $30,000 · Youth Development
Recreation & Sports$436,271Other$383,518Education$89,412Human Services$31,933Youth Development$30,000

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 budgetST PAUL URBAN TENNIS PROGRAM: $165,043 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetFRED WELLS TENNIS AND EDUCATION CENTER INC: $105,930 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetINNERCITY TENNIS FOUNDATION: $81,223 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetYouthprise: $46,800 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCommunity Indoor Tennis Center dba Huether Family Match Pointe: $41,600 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHIPPEWA VALLEY: $31,933 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetStonewall Kickball Minneapolis: $20,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELANO ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY CLAY COURTS: $11,475 over 1y, 19% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $10,210 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIOUX FALLS TENNIS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $7,402 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDULUTH FRIENDS OF TENNIS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 5.9% 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 ST PAUL URBAN TENNIS PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds FRED WELLS TENNIS AND EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds INNERCITY TENNIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Youthprise ↗
  • Who funds Community Indoor Tennis Center dba Huether Family Match Pointe ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHIPPEWA VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds PRIOR LAKE ATHLETICS FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds Stonewall Kickball Minneapolis ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
  • Who funds DELANO ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY CLAY COURTS ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SIOUX FALLS TENNIS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Milbank Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DULUTH FRIENDS OF TENNIS INC ↗

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 …The Minneapolis Found…Sanford Group ReturnThe Richard M Schulze…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Otto Bremer TrustYouthpriseMightycause Charitabl…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
United States Tennis Association IncorporatedNY23.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United States Tennis Association Incorporated · The Minneapolis Foundation · Sanford Group Return · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Youthprise · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 41 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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