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Small market, big impact. The Kansas City Royals rank near the bottom of the league in franchise valuation and team revenue. When I began this research, I expected that these two metrics would correlate most closely with how much a foundation raises and deploys. And yet the Royals Foundation lands
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Eight Man Out. Frank Thomas. Carlton Fisk without the earflaps. Mark Buerhle. Paul Konerko. Robin Ventura being pummeled by Nolan Ryan. These are the things that come to mind when I think of the White Sox. What doesn't come to mind is anything to do with their community
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I'm halfway through this project of publishing snapshots on each team, and one of the things that has made it interesting is the ability, beyond looking at numbers on a spreadsheet, to compare foundations to each other. In my last post, I compared the Brewers Community Foundation with
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Staying in the NL and looking at another mid-market team: the Milwaukee Brewers, a franchise that continues to outpace many of the more moneyed teams in baseball on the field. It's interesting to look at the Brewers Community Foundation immediately after the Rockies, because these are two
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Moving to another NL West team, and actually the final one from the division, we have the Colorado Rockies and the Rockies Foundation. And maybe it’s just as you’d expect? The IMPACT+ score rates at the bottom of the league at 37.8. The good: they basically grant
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Last fall, I happened to meet someone who has been involved with the San Francisco Giants and the Giants Community Fund for a number of years (he happened to be wearing his World Series ring at the time, and I got to hold it!). I mentioned the idea of this
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Back when I wrote the very first post in this series, comparing what happened to the Mets and Dodgers foundations after their ownership changes, I flagged the Orioles as the other real case study worth watching, as David Rubenstein bought the team in 2024 and is now one of the
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When I was going through the All-Star Legacy Initiative numbers for the last post, one finding jumped out at me: the Rangers' $7 million investment in 2024. In digging further into the data, I learned that this wasn't the largest Legacy Initiative effort: that title belongs,
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The spike that pulled me into a rabbit hole The Astros rate well on IMPACT+ — a 104.3, slightly above league average, good for #12 of 29. But that's not what drew my attention when I pulled this one together. Take a look and see what question you
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The "before" picture...now we just wait for the "after". The Padres are the most recent team to change hands — José E. Feliciano and Kwanza Jones closed on the franchise in May 2026 at a record $3.9 billion. That makes the Padres Foundation the next
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As I noted in the previous post, MLB and host clubs have given nearly $125M to local communities through the All-Star Legacy initiative since its inception, dating back to 1997. I went back and looked at press releases and news stories to document the impact these efforts have made.
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With the 2026 All-Star Game happening in Philadelphia, it's a good time to look at Phillies Charities. First, though, an interesting aspect of the All-Star festivities: since 1997, MLB has run the Legacy Initiative in partnership with the host club to support local organizations as well