Nebraska · Nonprofit
PLAY BALL FOUNDATION
PLAY BALL FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,408 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($2,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $156k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $-815956
What Play Ball Foundation does
Mission
Play ball! Foundation provides facilities and instructional clinics for coaches and youth in the omaha, nebraska metropolitan area and surrounding areas to promote and further teambuilding and leadership skills through the game of baseball and softball.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Play ball! Foundation maintains facilities that are made available to the public for youth baseball and softball activities, including tournaments. The foundation also provides financial assistance to youth baseball and softball players who would otherwise not be able to play due to family financial constraints.
$149,745 spentof which $14,434 as grants$138,769 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $149,745.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.3M to $1.2M (−11%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of PLAY BALL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 9 of the last 9 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 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $750 → $908.
From the IRS filings of PLAY BALL FOUNDATION’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
PLAY BALL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 83% — 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.
Where its funders are
PLAY BALL FOUNDATION draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Nebraska, 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
PLAY BALL FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PLAY BALL FOUNDATION
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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
49%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PLAY BALL FOUNDATION: 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 PLAY BALL FOUNDATION?
- PLAY BALL FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,408 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($2,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PLAY BALL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $3,408 in grants to PLAY BALL FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PLAY BALL FOUNDATION?
- VERIZON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PLAY BALL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 2017–2025), 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