Major League Baseball Players Trust
Overview
Mission
The major league baseball players trust harnesses the expertise, influence, and energy of players to create meaningful and sustainable change in the lifelong well-being of others. This is achieved through a series of programs that are run and funded by the mlb players trust. The trust receives contributions from the general public.
What it reported doing in 2024
Support of nonprofit organizations identified by players; implementation of sports - based youth development programs offered to students globally. The charitable organizations are listed in schedule i.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 66% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133843389
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- New York, NY, USA
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Amateur Sports
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for setting executive pay and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 85.9%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.2%; rating input score 88; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 80.2%; rating input score 80; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -21%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 1.74; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.8%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $3.5M · 9 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 32 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 annual filings from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 48 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 51 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.