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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 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 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 66 grants below total $764,531, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,005,920 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $241,389 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 $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
Eastern Mennonite University$17,500
The Howard University$17,500
College of the Holy Cross$17,500
Adelphi University$17,500
Trustees of Clark University$17,500
University of North Florida$17,500
Central College$16,031
Starfinder Foundation$11,000
Kids Unlimited of Oregon$10,000
p1440org Foundation Inc$10,000
Fencing in the Park Inc$10,000
NATIVE STRENGTH REVOLUTION$10,000
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 (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 its 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%Street Soccer USA Inc: $7k → 17%Atabey Outdoors: $7k → 11%Oakland Lacrosse Club: $7k → 10%KEYS EMPOWERS INC: $7k → 19%Girls Incorporated of Alameda County: $7k → 10%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
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

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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
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

  • USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    2× · 2019–2021 · $315k · revenue +31%
  • FS
    FIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $97k · revenue +15%
  • RU
    RACQUET UP DETROIT
    4× · 2018–2021 · $80k · revenue +19%

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%
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
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.

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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.

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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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amandla Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

258 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. 258 of the 308 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.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROFESSIONAL WOMENS HOCKEY PLAYERS ASSOCIATION: $105,000 · OtherPROFESSIONAL WOMENS HOCKEY PLAYERS ASSO…Blackfeet Nation Boxing Club: $90,000 · OtherBlackfeet Nation Boxing ClubGLOW YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $80,000 · OtherBESTSELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH 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 INCYOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC DBA FIRST TEE - NORTHWEST ARKANSAS: $80,000 · Recreation & SportsYOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC DBA FIRST …RACQUET UP DETROIT: $80,000 · Recreation & SportsRACQUET UP DETROITATHLETE ALLY INC: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsJUNIOR TENNIS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Recreation & Sports+37 more: $598,200 · Recreation & Sports+37 moreTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $69,484 · EducationTRUSTEES OF CLARK UN…COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC: $35,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College: $35,000 · EducationD'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY: $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+26 more: $415,076 · Education+26 moreAlgonquin Sports for Kids: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentAlgonquin Spor…THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MIDNIGHT G…GIRLS ON THE RUN OF BUFFALO INC: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE R…INSPIRATIONAL TRIATHLON RACING INTERNATIONAL CORP: $24,000 · Youth DevelopmentTGA SPORTS FOUNDATION: $24,000 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $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 ServicesWe Are &Mother dba For All Mothers: $10,000 · Human ServicesThe Eco-Collective Farm School Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE THERAPEUTIC PLAY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesGIRLVENTURES: $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 · PhilanthropyURBAN TRIAGE INCORPORATED: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BORN TO RUN FOUNDATION INC: $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$1,270,296Education$795,326Youth Development$556,000Human Services$109,800Philanthropy$106,500Arts & Culture$42,000

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 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 budgetYOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC DBA FIRST TEE - NORTHWEST ARKANSAS: $80,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetAlgonquin Sports for Kids: $80,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetRACQUET UP DETROIT: $80,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetGLOW YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM: $80,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBESTSELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF BUFFALO INC: $80,000 over 4y, 6.4% 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 budgetATHLETE ALLY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetJUNIOR TENNIS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWENDY HILLIARD FOUNDATION: $39,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetCOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetD'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY: $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 budgetED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION: $27,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWOODCRAFT RANGERS: $27,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budgetTRACKGIRLZ: $24,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetRUN4FUN INC: $24,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetINSPIRATIONAL TRIATHLON RACING INTERNATIONAL CORP: $24,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetTGA SPORTS FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC COALITION OF GREATER WATERBURY: $21,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetINNER CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAngel City Alliance: $20,800 over 1y, 2.3% 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 budgetSURFEARNEGRA: $20,000 over 2y, 25% 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
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.

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.

Laureus Sport for Goo…Good Sports IncDick's Sporting Goods…Beyond Sport Foundati…Usta Foundation Incor…Girls on the Run Inte…United States Olympic…United States Soccer …Rite Aid Healthy Futu…National Recreation F…Leveling the Playing …United States Tennis …
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Center for Health Equity Inc: 87% of income from government
  • Hispanic Coalition of Greater Waterbury: 53% of income from government
  • Impact Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Ac Portland: 14% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Beyond Soccer Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Banner Neighborhoods Community Corp: 6% of income from government
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
  • Bikes Not Bombs Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Abilities Dance Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Monmouth University Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Saint Michael's College: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% 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, 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 308 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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