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Urban Racquet Sports Foundation

Urban Racquet Sports Foundation (Michigan) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $409,145 to it, the largest being C K EDDY FAMILY MEMORIAL FUND ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$69k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$409k
Net assets
$346k
4/15 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Urban Racquet Sports Foundation does

Mission

Our mission is to reach and mentor underserved at risk urban youth through year-around tennis and pickleball instruction and character development training; promote reading and healthy nutrition; teach healthy life-long sports with opportunities for advanced competition. Tennis and pickleball is a means through caring volunteers and professional programs to provide character-building guidance with love and encouragement for a brighter future. We also reach and serve the underserved urban adult community with recreation coaching and exercise through our long-term lease with the city to operate and maintain the only tennis and pickleball facility in the city.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Instruction education and mentoring. Tennis and pickleball is our tool to reach inner-city at-risk youth with an emphasis on character qualities self-confidence building disclipine development reading proficiency and nutrition education. Reaching 100s of youth over the past 18 years through summer on-court activity and winter in-door facilities. In the second year of our new facility that we built after raising $2M in 2019 & 2021 we worked with 134 kids from the local Boys & Girls Club and area city.

    $39,587 spentof which $30,432 as grants
    97% of program spending
  2. We provided the city public school systems only high school tennis team with our facility to practice and host match play.

    $0 spentof which $4,212 as grants
    0% of program spending
  3. We hosted pickleball leagues tournaments mixers as a means to fundraise for the above actives while reaching and helping change the recreational habits of the adult city community that has one of the highest obesity rates in the State of Michigan.

    $1,260 spent
    3% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $40,847.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($141k) Expenses 100 ($153k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2020 Revenue 159 ($223k) Expenses 35 ($53k) Net assets 2628 ($195k)2021 Revenue 129 ($182k) Expenses 5 ($7k) Net assets 4939 ($366k)2022 Revenue 54 ($76k) Expenses 38 ($58k) Net assets 5187 ($384k)2023 Revenue 57 ($80k) Expenses 52 ($79k) Net assets 5114 ($379k)2024 Revenue 49 ($69k) Expenses 67 ($102k) Net assets 4674 ($346k)
201720202021202220232024
Revenue (49)Expenses (67)Net assets (4674)Peer revenue range

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 $195k to $366k (+88%).

$7k
$195k
$366k
$384k
$379k
$346k
201720202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

71% of Urban Racquet Sports Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$12k
’17
$170k
’20
$175k
’21
$18k
’22
$730
’23
−$33k
’24
43
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $5k.

3 of 15 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.

From the IRS filings of Urban Racquet Sports 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

Urban Racquet Sports Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

49%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 50% · 2020 100% · 2021 71% · 2022 56% · 2023 98% — 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.

How long its funders stay

18% of Urban Racquet Sports Foundation's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 27% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

Urban Racquet Sports Foundation draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 3 states in all.

MI
NY
OH

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Urban Racquet Sports Foundation's revenue fell 51% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−47% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−10% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,682 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

60%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds Urban Racquet Sports Foundation?
Urban Racquet Sports Foundation (Michigan) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $409,145 to it, the largest being C K EDDY FAMILY MEMORIAL FUND ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Urban Racquet Sports Foundation have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $409,145 in grants to Urban Racquet Sports Foundation, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Urban Racquet Sports Foundation?
C K EDDY FAMILY MEMORIAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Urban Racquet Sports Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 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