Maryland · Nonprofit
BETHESDA COMMUNITY BASE BALL CLUB
BETHESDA COMMUNITY BASE BALL CLUB (Maryland) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $345,242 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($103,200). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $542k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $345k
- Net assets
- $503k
What Bethesda Community Base Ball Club does
Mission
Using amateur baseball as its platform, build a stronger community in the greater Washington DC area. Community building is accomplished by partnering with community service organizations at our home games at Povich Field to recognize their work and the work of local community heroes. To showcase the breadth of our multicultural community, special emphasis is placed on recognizing particular groups through such programs as Juneteenth, Jewish Heritage Night, and Pride Night. Players and fans provide direct community service through a Roberto Clemente Community Service Day program, and funds are raised to improve publicly owned ballfields, particularly Shirley Povich Field owned by Montgomery Parks, part of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
BCBBC operates the Bethesda Big Train, an elite level collegiate wooden bat summer baseball team that provides affordable family fun for close to 15,000 fans at its home ballpark, Shirley Povich Field, during June and July. To date, 24 members of Bethesda Big Train have played for a major league baseball team. BBCCS uses these games to educate our youth and the broader public about our multicultural community and the value of volunteerism. In addition to hosting a different community nonprofit every home game as our Community Hero of the Game, we showcase the admirable diversity of our community each year through our Clarence "Pint" Isreal Juneteenth Classic that honors our local history of Black sandlot baseball, Jewish Baseball Heritage Night, Pride Night, Sister Cities Night, Seniors Night, Military and First Responders Night, and Latin Baseball Heritage Night. Additionally, annually we hold a Roberto Clemente Community Service Day during which our players and fans volunteer at nonprofit organizations in our community.
$219,789 spent69% of program spendingBCBBC runs a summer baseball camp for 300 kids who are 12 and under, helping them develop their individual and teamwork skills while giving scores of collegiate baseball players an opportunity to develop their teaching and mentoring skills and providing role models for the youth in Montgomery County and Washington, DC.
$54,758 spent17% of program spendingCommunity improvement activities to improve publicly-owned ballfields, particularly Shirley Povich Field, which is owned by Montgomery Parks, a governmental agency. BCBBC also provides support to other nonprofit onganizations through joint activities and to recognize others for their service to the community.
$42,135 spent13% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $316,682.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $283k to $427k (+51%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
51% of BETHESDA COMMUNITY BASE BALL CLUB’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $2k → $157k.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BETHESDA COMMUNITY BASE BALL CLUB’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BETHESDA COMMUNITY BASE BALL CLUB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BETHESDA COMMUNITY BASE BALL CLUB.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 50% · 2021 49% · 2022 67% · 2023 48% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of BETHESDA COMMUNITY BASE BALL CLUB's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
53% of BETHESDA COMMUNITY BASE BALL CLUB's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $161k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $185k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BETHESDA COMMUNITY BASE BALL CLUB holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BETHESDA COMMUNITY BASE BALL CLUB
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BETHESDA COMMUNITY BASE BALL CLUB?
- BETHESDA COMMUNITY BASE BALL CLUB (Maryland) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $345,242 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($103,200). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BETHESDA COMMUNITY BASE BALL CLUB have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $345,242 in grants to BETHESDA COMMUNITY BASE BALL CLUB, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BETHESDA COMMUNITY BASE BALL CLUB?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $103,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BETHESDA COMMUNITY BASE BALL CLUB find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 18 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing