EIN 20-4103240

Rays Baseball Foundation

IRS 501(c) type
501(c)(3)
Num. employees
0
State
Year formed
2005
Most recent tax filings
2022-12-01
NTEE code, primary
Description
The Rays Baseball Foundation supports youth and education programs, provides assistance to an underserved community, and outfits tee-ball players.
Total revenues
$1,835,399
2022
Total expenses
$1,656,118
2022
Total assets
$2,799,147
2022
Num. employees
0
2022

Program areas at Rays Baseball Foundation

The Rays Baseball Foundation community fund grant program provides assistance to local nonprofits in the tampa bay region. These grants help enhance and support current programs offered by community-based nonprofit organizations.
Since 2014, the Rays jersey program has outfitted more than 95,000 tampa bay area tee-ball players and coaches with jerseys and caps. The program covers more than 80 different leagues in nine area counties and has saved the leagues more than $1 million dollars in equipment costs. As a result of these savings, officials from some of the participating leagues have noted that they now have the ability to pass these savings along to participant families. They have also been able to repair their scoreboards, provide upgrades to dugouts, add fencing for fields, purchase additional equipment and grounds crew supplies and repair concession stands and other areas of their facilities.
Through various scholarship programs, the Rays Baseball Foundation supports student scholars in hillsborough, pinellas, pasco, manatee, and sarasota counties. All payments are made to area organizations that provide scholarships for students.
The home run club continues to offer a sense of stability and belonging to hundreds of foster children and adoptive families throughout tampa bay. Each season, with the help of eckerd, family resources, guardian ad litem, the heart gallery, ready for life and youth alternatives, over 500 foster children have become club members and attended a series of home games in the suite. When the suite isn't being used for club kids, eckerd and the heart gallery use it for special adoption events. Furthering the organization's support for foster children and families, the ballpark also plays host to a permanent heart gallery exhibit, displaying professional portraits and personal biographies of children waiting to be adopted. The home run club and heart gallery events hosted by the Rays have resulted in numerous adoptions for local foster children.
The rowdies soccer fund is dedicated to improving the lives of those in need within our community, focusing primarily on education, youth development, wellness, and social responsibility. Through programming and nonprofit giving the rowdies soccer fund strives to energize our community through the magic of rowdies soccer.
Since 2006, the Rays Baseball Foundation has teamed up with suncoast credit union for the summer reading program reading with the Rays - read your way to the ballpark. Reading with the Rays encourages kids to avoid summer reading loss by participating in a fun and interactive reading program over the summer months. More than 500,000 tampa bay area students from nine surrounding counties have participated since its inception. Participating libraries track their progress and award prizes for reaching certain goals, including free tickets to a Rays game. The program is made possible through a partnership with suncoast credit union, tampa bay times newspaper in education, the Rays and public library systems in charlotte, citrus, hernando, hillsborough, manatee, pasco, pinellas, polk, and sarasota counties.
Since 2018, the Rays have partnered with team smile, an advocacy group that partners dental professionals with professional athletic organizations to provide life-changing dental care to underserved children in their communities. In the past 2 years, the Rays have hosted more than 400 children from the boys & girls clubs of the suncoast and local foster care groups for a free dental day at tropicana field. The value of care provided totals almost $170,000 in dental care and education. Through this experience, the children received free oral health education, screening, and treatment, and were taught that the mouth and body are linked to overall health. The children received dental work completely free of charge, including x-rays, screening, and educational material on how to protect their teeth. Additionally, raymond and dj kitty were on hand to greet the kids, along with the Rays team, face painters, balloon artists and Rays Baseball camp coaches.
Throughout the month of june, Rays Baseball operations staff taught stem curriculum at academy prep campuses in lakeland, tampa, and st. petersburg. Across five days at each campus, staff members taught over 90 students lessons from the Rays science of Baseball program, which includes subjects such as geometry, physiology, and statistics. The program culminated with a career day at tropicana field.

Grants made by Rays Baseball Foundation

GranteeGrant descriptionAmount
Good SportsPartnership Grant$70,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa BayPartnership Grant$60,000
American Heart Association (AHA)Partnership Grant$55,000
...and 52 more grants made totalling $1,197,731

Who funds Rays Baseball Foundation

Grants from foundations and other nonprofits
GrantmakerDescriptionAmount
Ted Williams Museum and Hitters Hall of FameCharitable$52,188
AmazonSmile FoundationGeneral Support$47

Personnel at Rays Baseball Foundation

NameTitleCompensation
John HigginsChairman and Secretary and Treasurer$0
Jennifer TranVice President$0
Bill WienerPresident$0
Melanie LenzPresident and Chair$0

Financials for Rays Baseball Foundation

RevenuesFYE 12/2022
Total grants, contributions, etc.$759,033
Program services$0
Investment income and dividends$20,902
Tax-exempt bond proceeds$0
Royalty revenue$0
Net rental income$0
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets$0
Net income from fundraising events$0
Net income from gaming activities$1,055,464
Net income from sales of inventory$0
Miscellaneous revenues$0
Total revenues$1,835,399

Form 990s for Rays Baseball Foundation

Fiscal year endingDate received by IRSFormPDF link
2022-122023-10-18990View PDF
2020-122021-10-03990View PDF
2019-122021-02-17990View PDF
2018-122019-12-06990View PDF
2017-122018-12-22990View PDF
...and 8 more Form 990s
Data update history
November 27, 2023
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2022
November 27, 2023
Updated personnel
Identified 1 new personnel
November 25, 2023
Received grants
Identified 1 new grant, including a grant for $52,188 from Ted Williams Museum and Hitters Hall of Fame
May 21, 2023
Received grants
Identified 1 new grant, including a grant for $492,066 from Ted Williams Museum and Hitters Hall of Fame
August 3, 2022
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2020
Nonprofit Types
Grantmaking organizationsCharities
Issues
EducationHuman servicesChildrenSports
Characteristics
Provides grantsReceives government fundingFundraising races, competitions, and tournamentsTax deductible donationsNo full-time employees
General information
Address
Tropicana Field One Tropicana Driv
St Petersburg, FL 33705
Metro area
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
County
Pinellas County, FL
Phone
(727) 825-3145
IRS details
EIN
20-4103240
Fiscal year end
December
Taxreturn type
Form 990
Year formed
2005
Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
Yes
Categorization
NTEE code, primary
T30: Public Foundations
NAICS code, primary
813211: Grantmaking Foundations
Parent/child status
Independent
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