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Womens Sports Foundation

We are a powerful voice and catalyst for ensuring all girls and women have equal access to physical activity and sports and the benefits they provide.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
66
Grants FY2024still arriving
26
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Recreation & Sports$3.3MEducation$1.1MYouth Development$421kHealth$175kHuman Services$71kArts & Culture$64kCommunity Improvement$46kPhilanthropy$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 66 grants below total $764,531 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,005,920 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $241,389 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k64 grants · $710k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
26
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Junior Tennis Foundation Inc$50,000
Challenged Athletes Foundation$20,000
Texas Woman's University$17,500
University of North Florida$17,500
The Howard University$17,500
Eastern Mennonite University$17,500
College of the Holy Cross$17,500
Trustees of Clark University$17,500
Adelphi University$17,500
Central College$16,031
Starfinder Foundation$11,000
Kids Unlimited of Oregon$10,000
Mighty Writers$10,000
Equal Access To Training (EAT) Inc$10,000
PowerPlay NYC Inc$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $183k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GirlVentures: $10k → 10%Angel City Alliance: $21k → 14%Riversport Foundation: $7k → 16%The Eco-Collective Farm School Inc: $10k → 10%Hark-ALS Inc: $8k → 5%Young Men's Christian Assn of the Capital Area: $7k → 19%The New Sun Rising: $9k → 11%We Are &Mother: $10k → 10%Rapid City YMCA: $7k → 14%Girls Incorporated of Alameda County: $7k → 10%Atabey Outdoors: $7k → 11%Oakland Lacrosse Club: $7k → 10%Street Soccer USA Inc: $7k → 17%KEYS EMPOWERS INC: $7k → 19%Challenged Athletes Foundation: $20k → 11%Challenged Athletes Foundation: $15k → 11%Detroit Police Athletic League Inc: $7k → 21%Detroit Police Athletic League Incorporated: $7k → 21%Therapeutic play Foundation: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 73 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

73 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
187

Total granted

$2.5M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+24%

Still filing today

95%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $520k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    2× · 2019–2021 · $315k · revenue +31%
  • FS
    FIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $97k · revenue +15%
  • GO
    GIRLS ON THE RUN OF BUFFALO INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $80k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • PW
    PROFESSIONAL WOMENS HOCKEY PLAYERS ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $105k · revenue +147% · 29% of their budget
  • BN
    Blackfeet Nation Boxing Club
    one grant, 2021 · $90k
  • AA
    ATHLETE ALLY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -4%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

2
The Winsor School

Our mission: the winsor school prepares young women to pursue their aspirations and contribute to the world.

Education
3
Rye Youth Soccer Club Inc

The program was formed to foster, promote, encourage and support the playing of soccer in the city of rye, new york.

4
Bay Area Scores

America scores is a sports-based youth development program that inspires youth to lead healthy lives, be engaged students, and have the confidence and character to make a positive difference in the world. our unique mix of soccer, poetry,…

Recreation & Sports
5
Tech Exposure & Access Through Mentoring Inc

The organization's mission is to prepare students for opportunities available at the intersection of technology and sports.

Employment
6
Girls On the Run of Northeast Wisconsin Inc

Girls on the run is a transformational physical activity based positive youth development program for girls in 3rd-8th grade. we teach life skills through dynamic interactive lessons and running games. the program culminates with the girls…

Youth Development
7
Play Rugby Inc

To create "a better world through rugby" by providing young people, primarily from underserved backgrounds, with a vitality for life both on and off the rugby field.

Recreation & Sports
8
Flow Athletics

Flow provides the mentorship, resources, and community support that allow young athletes to thrive across every field, court and classroom. Our purpose at Flow Athletics is to prepare the next generation of student-athletes for life on and…

Recreation & Sports
9
America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores

America scores new england inspires urban youth to lead healthy lives, be engaged students, and have the confidence and character to make a difference in the world.

Youth Development
10
National Collegiate Athletic Association

Provide a world-class athletics and academic experience for student-athletes that fosters lifelong well-being.

Recreation & Sports
11
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
12
Rochester Youth Soccer League

Rochester youth soccer league's (rysl) mission is to empower individuals of all ages and abilities through the transformative power of sports and physical activity. we believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to participate in and…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amandla Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mo-Energee Youth 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports ProgramsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Development CentersLgbtq+ Community SupportCommunity College Foundatio…Community FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsHealth Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Pregnancy Support ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesSenior Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Community Arts CentersSchool District FoundationsYouth Development ServicesJewish Community Organizati…Dance Arts OrganizationsYouth Mentoring ProgramsImmigrant Worker SupportWomen & Girls Leadership De…Ymca Youth Development
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%6%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%5/309
the rest of the field
13%
240,391/1,819,256

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.

04the grantee network

258 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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 258 of the 308 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
71
Early backer (in before they grew)
256/258
Grantees still filing
181/258
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PROFESSIONAL WOMENS HOCKEY PLAYERS ASSOCIATION — $105,000 · OtherPROFESSIONAL WOMENS HOCKEY PLAYERS ASSO…Blackfeet Nation Boxing Club — $90,000 · OtherBlackfeet Nation Boxing ClubBESTSELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC — $80,000 · OtherGLOW YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $80,000 · OtherAnn Arbor Young Men's Christian Association — $80,000 · OtherTENNIS CENTRAL — $65,000 · Other+72 more — $1,070,112 · Other+72 moreUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $315,096 · Recreation & SportsUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDFIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC — $97,000 · Recreation & SportsFIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INCRACQUET UP DETROIT — $80,000 · Recreation & SportsRACQUET UP DETROITYOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC DBA FIRST TEE - NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — $80,000 · Recreation & SportsYOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC DBA FIRST …JUNIOR TENNIS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsATHLETE ALLY INC — $50,000 · Recreation & Sports+36 more — $588,200 · Recreation & Sports+36 moreTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY — $69,484 · EducationTRUSTEES OF CLARK UN…D'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY — $35,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC — $35,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College — $35,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE — $34,924 · EducationFordham University — $34,796 · EducationPOMONA COLLEGE — $34,599 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $34,520 · EducationCENTRAL COLLEGE — $33,531 · EducationWellesley College — $33,396 · Education+27 more — $425,076 · Education+27 moreGIRLS ON THE RUN OF BUFFALO INC — $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE R…Algonquin Sports for Kids — $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentAlgonquin Spor…THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM — $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MIDNIGHT G…TGA SPORTS FOUNDATION — $24,000 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $24,000 · Youth DevelopmentINSPIRATIONAL TRIATHLON RACING INTERNATIONAL CORP — $24,000 · Youth Development+20 more — $244,000 · Youth Development+20 moreCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesAngel City Alliance — $20,800 · Human ServicesDETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED — $14,000 · Human ServicesGIRLVENTURES — $10,000 · Human ServicesThe Eco-Collective Farm School Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE THERAPEUTIC PLAY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesWe Are &Mother dba For All Mothers — $10,000 · Human ServicesStarfinder Foundation — $25,000 · PhilanthropyARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BENTON CO INC — $19,000 · PhilanthropyCSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION — $17,500 · PhilanthropyTHE BORN TO RUN FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyURBAN TRIAGE INCORPORATED — $10,000 · PhilanthropyDANCING DREAMS — $12,000 · Arts & CultureDMF YOUTH INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureABILITIES DANCE INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureINTERSECTIONAL ARTS INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,570,112Recreation & Sports$1,260,296Education$805,326Youth Development$556,000Human Services$109,800Philanthropy$106,500Arts & Culture$42,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $315,096 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPROFESSIONAL WOMENS HOCKEY PLAYERS ASSOCIATION — $105,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetFIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC — $97,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF BUFFALO INC — $80,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetBESTSELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC — $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLOW YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $80,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAlgonquin Sports for Kids — $80,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM — $80,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetRACQUET UP DETROIT — $80,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetYOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC DBA FIRST TEE - NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — $80,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetAnn Arbor Young Men's Christian Association — $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY — $69,484 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTENNIS CENTRAL — $65,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetJUNIOR TENNIS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetATHLETE ALLY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWENDY HILLIARD FOUNDATION — $39,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetD'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE — $34,924 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University — $34,796 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE — $34,599 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $34,520 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOWERPLAY NYC INC — $34,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL COLLEGE — $33,531 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College — $33,396 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLACER AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS — $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGIRLS IN THE GAME NFP — $29,377 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWOODCRAFT RANGERS — $27,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION — $27,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBEYOND SOCCER INC — $27,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetStarfinder Foundation — $25,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC — $24,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTRACKGIRLZ — $24,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetTGA SPORTS FOUNDATION — $24,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRUN4FUN INC — $24,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetINSPIRATIONAL TRIATHLON RACING INTERNATIONAL CORP — $24,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetINNER CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC COALITION OF GREATER WATERBURY — $21,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAngel City Alliance — $20,800 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSURFEARNEGRA — $20,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetTHE SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS & ENRICHMENT CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED STATES OF AMERICA RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION LTD — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFENCING IN THE PARK INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BENTON CO INC — $19,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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.

Laureus Sport for Good Foundation USANY75.9× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Laureus Sport for Good Foundation USA · Good Sports Inc · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Beyond Sport Foundation Inc · Usta Foundation Incorporated · Girls on the Run International Inc · United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee · United States Soccer Foundation Inc · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · National Recreation Foundation Incorporated · Leveling the Playing Field Inc · United States Tennis Association Incorporated

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 Womens Sports Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 80%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • The Center for Health Equity Inc87% of income from government
  • Hispanic Coalition of Greater Waterbury53% of income from government
  • Impact Inc25% of income from government
  • Ac Portland14% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College13% of income from government
  • Beyond Soccer Inc7% of income from government
  • Banner Neighborhoods Community Corp6% of income from government
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc6% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University2% of income from government
  • Bikes Not Bombs Inc2% of income from government
  • Abilities Dance Inc1% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College1% of income from government
  • Monmouth University Inc0% of income from government
  • Saint Michael's College0% of income from government
  • Williams College0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
56report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 308 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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