Ohio · Nonprofit
Team First Foundation
Team First Foundation (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,007,701 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($805,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $630k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $898k
What Team First Foundation does
Mission
The Team First Foundation identifies and delivers educational programs and sports related activity opportunities for area community members.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
UCLA HOOPS - In 2023, UCLA Hoops participated in a number of programs including Basketball Fantasy Experience 67 participants attended this exclusive basketball experience for local under resourced youth (3rd-6th grade) hosted by the current UCLA mens basketball team. Camp consisted of basketball drills, games, team building activities/life skills, lunch with the team, autographs and team photo opportunities. Each participant received an event t-shirt, reversible jersey, shorts, and a sling bag all branded with Jordan Brand. Attendees were sourced with local nonprofit organizations including LA Boys & Girls Club, JVS SoCal, Salesian Family Youth Center, United Heroes League and a few others. A social media campaign promoting the event, and the mission was shared by all members of the UCLA Mens basketball team who participated. Best Buddies Mentorship 10 participants sourced through Best Buddies attended this exclusive mentorship program via zoom hosted by current UCLA mens basketball players. Motivational messaging and topics around facing adversity and being a team were covered during this program. A social media campaign promoting the event, and the mission was shared by all…
$159,797 spent10% of program spendingCINCINNATI FOOTBALL- In 2023, football players from University of Cincinnati participated in a number of programs including Super Bowl Sunday Youth Football Camp 235 participants attended this free youth football camp for local under resourced youth (1st -6th grade) hosted by the current UC Football team in their practice facility (the Bubble). Camp consisted of football drills, games, team building activities/life skills, lunch, autographs and team photo opportunities. Each participant received an event t-shirt as well. Attendees were sourced with local nonprofit organizations including Cincinnati Rec Centers, United Way, Boys & Girls Clubs of Cincinnati, & the Brighton Center. Read Across America Day with Queen City Book Bank 2 UC Football players joined Queen City Book Bank, a Cincinnati-based organization promoting literacy throughout the tri-state area, at their annual Read Across America Day celebration. The players accompanied QCBB staff on a visit to St. Francis School, during which they visited 4 classes (approx. 60 participants) to read a story, do a short Q&A, and take photos with the students. In addition, the players helped recognize a St. Francis student who won…
$53,748 spent3% of program spendingCINCINNATI BASKETBALL In 2023, basketball players from University of Cincinnati participated in a number of programs including Oyler School Mentorship Sessions (3 sessions) Cincinnati Basketball players attended 3 mentorship sessions as part of the Oyler Schools Alfred Hampton Mentoring Program. During each visit (lasting between 1 & 2 hours), each player was matched up 1:1 or 1:2 with children from grades K-8 for individual 30-min mentoring sessions. The students were able to select the activity that they did with their player mentors, including reading stories, playing educational games, working on classwork from core classes, word games (crosswords, word searches, etc.), puzzles, or group games such as Uno & Headbands. Throughout the years programming, UC Basketball players mentored over 30 Oyler School students. Reading Camp in partnership with Queen City Book Bank Cincinnati Football & Basketball players attended a 4-day reading camp at the Queen City Book Bank designed to help 20 youth & adult participants learn to read. Players assisted with vocabulary / spelling exercises, read to the group, & practiced reading comprehension with the participants using activity workbooks…
$520,547 spent31% of program spendingOther work consists of similar programs as noted above put on with additional college sports programs.
$926,358 spentof which $48,653 as grants56% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,660,450.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $2.1M to $929k (−55%).
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 Team First Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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.
Chief executive
Megan Combs
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $784k → $2.4M.
11 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 Team First 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
Team First Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
79% 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 Team First Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 22% · 2023 24% — 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
76% of Team First Foundation'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 $949k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Team First Foundation is better cushioned than half of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Team First 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Team First 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Team First Foundation?
- Team First Foundation (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,007,701 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($805,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Team First Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $4,007,701 in grants to Team First Foundation, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Team First Foundation?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $805,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Team First Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 18 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