Massachusetts · Nonprofit
PITTSFIELD BABE RUTH BASEBALL LEAGUE INC
PITTSFIELD BABE RUTH BASEBALL LEAGUE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,391 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($10,391). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $41k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $19k
- Net assets
- $15k
What Pittsfield Babe Ruth Baseball League Inc does
Mission
To firmly implant in the youths of pittsfield ideals of good sportsmanship, honesty, loyalty, courage, and reverence, so that they may be finer, stronger, and happier youths and will grow to be good, clean, healthy persons. To achieve this purpose by providing youth of pittsfield for the ages of 13 to 15, the opportunity to participate in an organized, surpervised, and competitive baseball league. To further achieve this purpose by fostering the basic rule of all competitive sports - that is to develope the will to win but to acquire ability to lose and above all to learn to have the spirit to play again.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To provide and opportunity to play youth baseball and promote sportsmanship to the boys and girls of pittsfield, massachusetts and surrounding areas.
$96,143 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $96,143.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $31k to $15k (−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.
14% of PITTSFIELD BABE RUTH BASEBALL LEAGUE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $8k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 PITTSFIELD BABE RUTH BASEBALL LEAGUE 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
PITTSFIELD BABE RUTH BASEBALL LEAGUE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% 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
54% 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 PITTSFIELD BABE RUTH BASEBALL LEAGUE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 87% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
54% of PITTSFIELD BABE RUTH BASEBALL LEAGUE INC'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 $9k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
PITTSFIELD BABE RUTH BASEBALL LEAGUE INC receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $19k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like PITTSFIELD BABE RUTH BASEBALL LEAGUE 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 PITTSFIELD BABE RUTH BASEBALL LEAGUE 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 PITTSFIELD BABE RUTH BASEBALL LEAGUE INC?
- PITTSFIELD BABE RUTH BASEBALL LEAGUE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,391 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($10,391). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PITTSFIELD BABE RUTH BASEBALL LEAGUE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $19,391 in grants to PITTSFIELD BABE RUTH BASEBALL LEAGUE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PITTSFIELD BABE RUTH BASEBALL LEAGUE INC?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,391 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PITTSFIELD BABE RUTH BASEBALL LEAGUE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 3 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