New York · Nonprofit
USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED (New York) receives grants from 139 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,327,562 to it, the largest being HESS FOUNDATION INC ($6,000,000). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 139
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $20M
What Usta Foundation Incorporated does
Mission
To bring tennis & education together to change lives, with particular emphasis on under-resourced youth. Using this powerful combination, we help serve up dreams.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The usta foundation provides programmatic and operational grant funding to sports-based youth development organizations that utilize tennis, education and mentorship to positively impact the lives of young people. Preference is given to national junior tennis and learning (njtl) chapters that serve under-resourced communities. In 2025, a total of $10,400,764 was granted to 173 organizations. The usta foundation is committed to supporting the organizational growth and sustainability of njtl chapters and the young people they serve in several ways. Highlights of the foundation's support include: - organizational support: the usta foundation provides direct programmatic grants and capacity-building support to qualified njtl organizations. Program grants fund direct service programming in the communities njtls serve, while capacity-building support is provided through grants, technical assistance, and other resources aimed at fostering organizational growth, leadership development, and sustainability. These supports help njtl chapters promote and implement youth development best practices and enhance overall organizational effectiveness. Additionally, the usta foundation offers…
$10,841,171 spentof which $9,351,014 as grants90% of program spendingThe usta foundation awards college educational scholarships annually to high school seniors who have excelled academically, demonstrated community service and participated in an organized tennis program. Preference is given to njtl participants and awards are between $2,500 to $40,000, spread over four years. In 2025, a total of $1,158,500 in scholarships were provided to 39 participants.
$1,158,500 spentof which $1,158,500 as grants10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,999,671.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $13M to $21M (+67%).
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.
89% of USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Ginny Ehrlich
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 51 funders, grant income rose $747k → $3.3M.
25 of 139 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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: $1.9M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United States Tennis Association Incorporated). These are real filings, and they are not money USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED raised.
From the IRS filings of USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 139 funders by total. 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
USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
33% 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 USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 26% · 2019 41% · 2020 32% · 2021 29% · 2022 38% · 2023 30% — 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
36% of USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 303 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 303 recreation & sports nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- United States Tennis Association Inc · exempt
- Usta National Tennis Center Inc · exempt
- Usta Player Development Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED?
- USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED (New York) receives grants from 139 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,327,562 to it, the largest being HESS FOUNDATION INC ($6,000,000). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 139 organizations giving $24,327,562 in grants to USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED?
- HESS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 139 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing