California · Nonprofit
KEEP PLAYING BASEBALL
KEEP PLAYING BASEBALL (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,300 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($35,979). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $66k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $48k
- Net assets
- $26k
What Keep Playing Baseball does
Mission
Provide free resources for youth baseball players.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Web publications and traffic accomplishments:website:updated/re-published more than 500 existing articles while adding new artilces on the changing college baseball recruiting landscape. Www.keepplayingbaseball.org is our primary means of providing high school baseball players and parents with free resources and we continue to impact more people each year. In 2025, we had over 111,000 website users and 60,000 active users who accounted for over 191,000 pageviews.free online courses:we continued to provide 2 free online courses. Course 1, creating a successful diy recruiting video, walks players through the process of creating a high-level recruiting video on any budget. Having an updated video is the key to creating meaningful exposure and can be done with little more than a smart phone. Course 2, parents' role in the college baseball recruiting process: a crash course, helps parents better understand their role in the college search and recruiting process. The course offers tips on how to stay appropriately involved through each stage of the recruiting process while still empowering players by giving them ownership of their college search.
$54,611 spent93% of program spendingFree youth baseball clinics:in partnership with local high school programs and mlb catcher andrew knapp, we ran a free youth baseball clinic series for davis little league in davis, ca, lakeside little league in granite bay, and el dorado hills little league in el dordado hills, ca. We also assissted el dorado hills little league with one of their fall ball player bootcamps. Over 400 little league baseball players attended the clinics and feedback from partner organizations, camp attendees, and camper parents was positive.
$0 spent0% of program spendingInformational podcast: in 2025, our podcast continued to provide insight, advice, and expert information on the college baseball recruiting process. Episodes are a mix of informational interviews with players and coaches and informational discussions on a particular aspect of the college search and baseball recruiting process.
$0 spent0% of program spendingDirect support for baseball players:registration assistance program:in 2025, we supported davis little league's registration assistance program (rap) for the fifth year in a row. Our support for this program helped pay participation fees for little league participants whose families couldn't afford them. In a capacity building effort, we also assisted davis little league in rasing $11,000 for their registration assistance preserve. We also tabled at montgomery elementary school to assist spanish speaking parents register for davis little league and apply for registration assisstance. 3 players benefitted from this service. To date, our registration assistance has helped pay participation fees for roughly 50 players and counting.college scholarship program:in partnership with the vandergriff-brent family fund, we continued the Keep Playing Baseball college scholarhsip program. The program provides tuition scholarships for first-generation college students involved with baseball at a 4-year college or university. The academic scholarship provides $2,500 in tuition relief per year to each recipient and is renewable for up to 4 academic years. Our first recipient received continued to…
$4,000 spent7% of program spendingContinued partnerships with local mlb teams, players, and nonprofits:we partnered with 7-year mlb veteran andrew knapp, davis little league, lakeside little league, and el dorado hills little league as wel as local high school programs to run free baseball clinics for little league players.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $58,611.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $4k to $24k (+550%).
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.
100% of KEEP PLAYING BASEBALL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $10k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 KEEP PLAYING BASEBALL’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
KEEP PLAYING BASEBALL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 KEEP PLAYING BASEBALL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 90% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
99% of KEEP PLAYING BASEBALL'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 $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
KEEP PLAYING BASEBALL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like KEEP PLAYING BASEBALL
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
72%
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 KEEP PLAYING BASEBALL: 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 KEEP PLAYING BASEBALL?
- KEEP PLAYING BASEBALL (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,300 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($35,979). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KEEP PLAYING BASEBALL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $48,300 in grants to KEEP PLAYING BASEBALL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KEEP PLAYING BASEBALL?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $35,979 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KEEP PLAYING BASEBALL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2018–2025), 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