Florida · Nonprofit
POLO TRAINING FOUNDATION
POLO TRAINING FOUNDATION (Florida) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $868,550 to it, the largest being ROBERT I GOLDMAN FOUNDATION ($280,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $869k
- Net assets
- $8.7M
What Polo Training Foundation does
Mission
The Polo Training Foundation's purpose is to establish and administer a series of funds, including memorial, advisory, international, endowment, intercollegiate/ interscholastic, and others. These funds are dedicated to support polo in collegiate or scholastic sports curriculums, promote international goodwill through polo competition, and above all, encourage development and sportsmanship through teaching young people the principles of the game of polo. Since 1967, the Polo Training Foundation has been committed to excellence in the great sport of polo. The ptf supports polo training at all levels by providing funds for the development of current and future generations of players and umpires. Through its activities, the ptf seeks to encourage the highest standards of sportsmanship and to promote international good will through polo competition.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Youth clinics - playing polo is a confidence builder for both horse and rider. Any breed of horse along with any age of rider can have a great time with polo. Polo is a fantastic team sport, which can make it a fun family activity. At the higher levels it is an exhilarating and fast-paced sport.the clinic goal is to help students understand the concepts, rules, and principles of polo. To accomplish this goal, participants will receive instruction through videos, discussion and hands-on learning.the participants will:view a uspa blue book video guide while wilbur explains the rules of the game. Identify and demonstrate the four basic mallet strokes. Understand the line of the ball (lob) and the right of way learn the concept of the man, line, ball theory and beginning strategy for polo. Practice these concepts with the use of foot mallets while unmounted. Learn the proper way to prepare and protect your horse for the game and how to introduce your horse to mallets and balls. Learn skills while mounted, progressing to coached scrimmage games. Discuss plans for the creation of a polo club or interscholastic/intercollegiate club if desired. Adult clinics - the ptf will pay half the…
$414,605 spent$25,753 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $414,605.
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 2020 to 2021, from $4.7M to $6.2M (+30%).
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: 2021 4% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
36% of POLO TRAINING FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Melissa P Ganzi
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $66k → $174k.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $22k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United States Polo Association Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money POLO TRAINING FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of POLO TRAINING 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
POLO TRAINING FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 POLO TRAINING FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 27% · 2019 35% · 2020 55% · 2021 61% · 2022 77% · 2023 72% — 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
67% of POLO TRAINING FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 86% 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
POLO TRAINING FOUNDATION draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $174k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
POLO TRAINING FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like POLO TRAINING 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POLO TRAINING 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 POLO TRAINING FOUNDATION?
- POLO TRAINING FOUNDATION (Florida) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $868,550 to it, the largest being ROBERT I GOLDMAN FOUNDATION ($280,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does POLO TRAINING FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $868,550 in grants to POLO TRAINING FOUNDATION, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POLO TRAINING FOUNDATION?
- ROBERT I GOLDMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $280,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POLO TRAINING FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 22 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