Massachusetts · Nonprofit
YAWKEY BASEBALL LEAGUE INC
YAWKEY BASEBALL LEAGUE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,750 to it, the largest being YAWKEY FOUNDATION II ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $35k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $151k
- Net assets
- $9k
What Yawkey Baseball League Inc does
Mission
Create racial harmony through amateur baseball.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The ybl creates racial harmony throughout boston and neighboring areas by providing nearly 500 young men the opportunity to play organized, competitive amateur baseball. As many of the athletes are underprivileged inner city minorities, the league encourages integration amongst the various ethnicities and races.
$29,346 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $29,346.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $9k to $25k (+166%).
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 YAWKEY BASEBALL LEAGUE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $40k → $20k.
From the IRS filings of YAWKEY BASEBALL LEAGUE INC’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
YAWKEY BASEBALL LEAGUE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — 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
100% of YAWKEY BASEBALL LEAGUE INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
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
YAWKEY BASEBALL LEAGUE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like YAWKEY BASEBALL LEAGUE INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YAWKEY BASEBALL LEAGUE INC: 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 YAWKEY BASEBALL LEAGUE INC?
- YAWKEY BASEBALL LEAGUE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,750 to it, the largest being YAWKEY FOUNDATION II ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YAWKEY BASEBALL LEAGUE INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $150,750 in grants to YAWKEY BASEBALL LEAGUE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YAWKEY BASEBALL LEAGUE INC?
- YAWKEY FOUNDATION II is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YAWKEY BASEBALL LEAGUE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2 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