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Usta New England Inc

Westborough, MA · EIN 04-6006570. Reported 66 grants totalling $1,064,208 to 37 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.

37organizations funded
$12,592median reported grant
$1,064,208granted, 2021-2025
62%of grantees funded again the next year
10%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 37 distinct organizations, with 10% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 62% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $12,592. Half of what it reported fell between $9,928 and $19,000; the smallest was $5,740 and the largest $46,380. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
17 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
34 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
15 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Usta Connecticut IncNew Milford, CT$103,125332025
Usta Eastern Massachusetts IncBoxborough, MA$98,508332025
New England Tennis and Education FoundationWestborough, MA$82,883222022
Usta ConnecticutWestborough, MA$68,750222022
Usta EmassWestborough, MA$65,672222022
Usta New Hampshire IncLebanon, NH$40,188332025
Maine Tennis Association IncPortland, ME$37,908332025
Usta Western Massachsuetts IncE Longmeadow, MA$37,715332025
Njtl of Bennington VtBennington, VT$34,150222025
Usta Rhode Island National Junior Tennis & Learning ChapterN Providence, RI$33,372332025
Usta Vermont IncColchester, VT$32,405332025
Central Lincoln County Young Mens Christian AssociationDamariscotta, ME$30,000222024
Sportmans Tennis and Enrichment CenterDorchester Center, MA$27,280222022
Usta New HampshireWestborough, MA$26,792222022
Usta Western MaHadley, MA$25,860222022
Maine Tennis AssociationBuxton, ME$25,272222022
6-Love IncNorwalk, CT$25,000112022
TeamfameNewport, RI$25,000112022
Advantage KidsGilford, NH$23,750222024
Usta Rhode IslandGreenville, RI$22,248222022
All Court EnrichmentSomerville, MA$20,500222025
Usta VermontS Burlington, VT$19,856222022
Serving Stars IncAndover, MA$19,500222025
Norwalk Stamford Grassroots Tennis & Education IncNorwalk, CT$19,000112024
New Hytes IncBranford, CT$15,500222024
Advantage Kids and Lakes Region TennisGilford, NH$12,164112022
Danbury Grassroots Academy IncDanbury, CT$10,000112024
International Tennis Hall of Fame IncorporatedNewport, RI$10,000112024
Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership IncNew Haven, CT$10,000112024
The Sportmens Tennis & Enrichment Center IncDorchester, MA$10,000112023
Progresso LatinoCentral Falls, RI$8,070112025
Aces and Academics of New Haven IncNew Haven, CT$8,000112024
Hsc Community Services IncNew Britain, CT$7,500112024
Mac Tennis Training Center IncManchester, MA$7,500112025
Moving on Up With Tennis and Education IncSpringfield, MA$7,500112023
Tenacity IncAllston, MA$7,500112024
Pinewoods Health & Racquet ClubTorrington, CT$5,740112025

22 of 37 (59%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 5 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 22 of 37 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Recreation & Sports
12 orgs
Youth Development
4 orgs
Human Services
3 orgs
Education
2 orgs
Health Care
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20219$174,728$12,930
202212$252,049$14,838
202313$207,475$12,636
202419$255,725$11,124
202513$174,231$11,124

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

48% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Massachusetts
$506K
Connecticut
$204K
Rhode Island
$99K
Maine
$93K
Vermont
$86K
New Hampshire
$76K

Down to the city

Westborough, MA
$244K
New Milford, CT
$103K
Boxborough, MA
$99K
Norwalk, CT
$44K
Lebanon, NH
$40K
Portland, ME
$38K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund11 shared recipientsUsta Foundation Incorporated10 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc9 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc8 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust6 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc5 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $12,592 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Massachusetts.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Usta New England Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 7 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 6 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 110 Turnpike Road Suite 110, Westborough, MA, 01581.

EIN 04-6006570 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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