New Jersey · Nonprofit
ESSEX GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION INC
ESSEX GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,000 to it, the largest being USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ($95,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $139k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $133k
- Net assets
- $420
What Essex Grassroots Tennis & Education Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to prepare young people from under-resourced communities using tennis, education, nutritional health, life skills, and wellness to inspire and empower them to be productive and engaged citizens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
During 2025, Essex Grassroots Tennis & Education successfully expanded and strengthened its core youth development programming, delivering year-round tennis instruction, academic enrichment, and a six-week summer camp for underserved youth in Essex County, New Jersey. Through these programs, EGTE provided consistent access to high-quality athletic training, educational support, and life-skills development for more than 200 children, most of whom participated at little or no cost. Programming was delivered in partnership with local schools, community centers, and municipal recreation departments, ensuring accessibility across Newark, East Orange, and Irvington. Participants demonstrated growth in tennis skills, increased academic engagement, and improved confidence, discipline, and teamwork. EGTE also continued to emphasize holistic youth development by integrating mentorship, wellness education, and character-building activities throughout all program offerings. These efforts reflect EGTE's ongoing commitment to expanding equitable access to sports and education while positively impacting the long-term outcomes of the youth and families it serves.
$112,960 spent$7,080 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $112,960.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $800 to $6k (+700%).
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.
95% of ESSEX GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Samuel Inalegwu
Executive Board Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $12k → $30k.
From the IRS filings of ESSEX GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION INC’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
ESSEX GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 ESSEX GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 43% · 2022 52% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
ESSEX GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
ESSEX GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ESSEX GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION INC
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ESSEX GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ESSEX GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION INC?
- ESSEX GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,000 to it, the largest being USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ($95,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ESSEX GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $133,000 in grants to ESSEX GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ESSEX GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION INC?
- USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $95,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ESSEX GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 4 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