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The New York Yankees are worth an estimated $8.2 billion and take in about $728 million a year in team revenue. Both are the highest in Major League Baseball. Yet, this position as the top brand in the league does not appear to trickle down to the New York
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Despite ranking second to last in both team revenue and franchise valuation, the Rays Baseball Foundation shows you don't need either to make a difference in your community. Its Impact+ score of 103.5 puts it at #13 of 29, right around league average. Revenue of $2.7M
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I'm trying to find a positive for this one. There are some green shoots here, but the top line is not a great look. You have a team that is in the top half of the league in valuation and revenue. They are in a solid market. Their
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Since 2014, the Nationals Youth Baseball Academy has served more than 6,000 kids in Washington, D.C., ages 5 to 18, with free after-school programming built around academics, character development, and access to baseball and softball. It's a building they run, with staff, a curriculum, and
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When a snapshot undersells the current impact. The Atlanta Braves Foundation is a good case study of the limitations of looking historically using 990 data. Using this lens, they are middle of the pack in terms of IMPACT+. But upon a closer look, I see a Foundation with a focus
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Disclosure: Yes, I am a Cubs fan, but that does not influence my analysis or opinion when looking at the St. Louis Cardinals Community Fund/Cardinals Care. Now that we have that out of the way, let's take a look at the impact they have had in their
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With Roberto Clemente Day celebrated just two days ago, it's a good time to look at the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Pirates Charities. Unfortunately, in contrast to the legacy of Clemente, the Pirates Charities do not come out well in IMPACT+, ranking last of the 29 teams (remember,
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Moving to the Motor City and a first in this series - a foundation that is not solely for the baseball club's. The Ilitch Charities does business as both the Detroit Tigers Foundation and the Detroit Red Wings Foundation as the Ilitch Family is the majority owner of both.
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Volatility as a structure. Staying in the AL Central and moving to the Cleveland Guardians Charities. This snapshot connects with an earlier post about the MLB Legacy Initiative tied to the All-Star game and its host organization. In 2019, Cleveland served as the host, and the data shows the
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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