New York · Nonprofit
Major League Baseball Charities Inc
Major League Baseball Charities Inc (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,353,356 to it, the largest being TEAMMATES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ($890,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.4M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Major League Baseball Charities Inc does
Mission
To conduct activities to foster participation and interest in national or international amateur sports competition.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Major League Baseball Charities Inc. Provides grants to other charitable organizations to support a variety of educational, health, & recreational causes. Major league baseball charities provides assistance to fund youth game development programs, such as the rbi program. The rbi program is a youth development program targeted at inner-city, urban, and at-risk youth. Major league baseball charities also provides scholarship grants to inner city, urban, and at-risk youths. Mlb charities inc. Makes grants and provides assistance to national, regional and local amateur sports organizations that encourage and develop amateur athletes for national or international competition in amateur baseball and or amateur sports. Mlb charities inc. Makes grants and provides assistance to municipalities to construct, maintain, and promote public parks that sponsor and encourage local communities to engage in amateur baseball and other amateur sports. Mlb charities inc. Organizes, supports, and encourages the development of amateur athletes for local, national or international competition by means of direct grants and other direct program support.
$9,253,602 spentof which $9,253,602 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,253,602.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $3.8M to $7.1M (+85%).
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 Major League Baseball Charities Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% 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.
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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $68k → $112k.
From the IRS filings of Major League Baseball Charities 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
Major League Baseball Charities Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 Major League Baseball Charities Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 91% · 2021 100% · 2022 57% · 2023 73% — 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
33% of Major League Baseball Charities Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 20% 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
Major League Baseball Charities Inc draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 8 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
Major League Baseball Charities Inc's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Major League Baseball Charities 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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 51 states
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Baseball Assistance Team · exempt
- Major League Baseball Youth Foundation · exempt
- Baseball Industry Growth Fund · partnership
- Major League Baseball Blue Inc · corp_trust
- Office of the Commissioner of Baseball · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Major League Baseball Charities 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 Major League Baseball Charities Inc?
- Major League Baseball Charities Inc (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,353,356 to it, the largest being TEAMMATES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ($890,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Major League Baseball Charities Inc have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,353,356 in grants to Major League Baseball Charities Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Major League Baseball Charities Inc?
- TEAMMATES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $890,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Major League Baseball Charities Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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