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Baseball Development Programs

01 Baseball Development Programs · 35 edit slice
6
orgs
35
activities
3
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 6 organizations and 35 activities — MORE THAN A GAME, PEDRO GOMEZ FOUNDATION, BASEBALL NUTT FOUNDATION, AGUA VIVA and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Development Through Inclusive Athletics", run by 4 orgs.
who to look at first

shortlist

Ranked by activity breadth, method diversity, and network reach across the slice. Attach a memo to this report and this list re-ranks around your intent.

where this slice is thin

gap signals

Concrete structural gaps — method mix, geographic concentration, coalition density, funder diversity. Evidence is cited from the slice's own numbers.

where the field lives · works

geography

Orange headquarters dots are sized by how many grantees are based in the state. Green circles mark real locations these orgs say they serve — from city-level populations in this slice's impact_map_populations data. Toggle layers at the bottom right.

regional breakdown · hq density
Arizona 100% · 6 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 6

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direct service advocacy research capacity building
where the money comes from

funders already active in this field

Funders named as a funding source on these orgs' own materials. The count is the number of orgs in this slice that cite them — higher means a funder with demonstrable commitment to the field.

ESPN 2
Corporate
Arizona Cardinals 1
Corporate
D-Backs Give Back 1
Corporate
DICK'S Sporting Goods 1
Corporate
InReach Wealth Advisors 1
Corporate
Major League Baseball (MLB) 1
Corporate
Pirates Charities 1
Corporate
San Tan Ford 1
Corporate
T-Mobile 1
Corporate
how the field thinks

strategies in this slice

Theories of action extracted from the orgs in this slice. The count is how many orgs cite each one — a strategy run by many orgs in common is a through-line; one cited by a single org is still surfaced so the reader can gauge the full spread.

where strategy meets practice

strategies × activity types

How each shared strategy breaks down across the four activity types the orgs running it actually do.

direct service
advocacy
research
capacity building
Development Through Inclusive Athletics
25
7
Community-Led Systems Change
2
Therapeutic Gifting
2
who works with whom

named partnerships · coalitions · networks

Entities these orgs explicitly call out as partners, coalition members, or networks. Unlike the strategy-sharing graph below (which is inferred from shared approaches), these are relationships the orgs claim on their own sites.

A.D. STARR Partner
shared by 1 org
ARM & HAMMER Partner
shared by 1 org
ASU Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication Partner
shared by 1 org
Action News Now Partner
shared by 1 org
American Premier Insurance Agency Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Cardinals Funder
shared by 1 org
Arizona Diamondbacks Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Republic Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Sports and Entertainment Commission Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona State University Partner
shared by 1 org
Baseball Island Foundation Partner
shared by 1 org
Beef Partner
shared by 1 org
Boston Red Sox Partner
shared by 1 org
Capital One Partner
shared by 1 org
D-Backs Give Back Funder
shared by 1 org
DICK’S Sporting Goods Partner
shared by 1 org
where the field connects

strategy-sharing network

Inferred from shared theories of action: each line connects an org to a strategy it runs. Organizations that share many strategies cluster through the same nodes — funders can spot the field's structural bridges.

funder shortlist · top 5

Orgs that combine the highest activity counts with the broadest strategy reach — the default entry points for a funder diligencing this field.

  1. #01 MORE THAN A GAME AZ · 23 · shares w/ 0
  2. #02 PEDRO GOMEZ FOUNDATION AZ · 6 · shares w/ 0
  3. #03 BASEBALL NUTT FOUNDATION INC AZ · 2 · shares w/ 0
  4. #04 AGUA VIVA INC AZ · 2 · shares w/ 0
  5. #05 SCR Baseball League AZ · 1 · shares w/ 0
scale of the field

rollup metrics

Aggregated scale claims from orgs in the slice. Treat as a floor, not a ceiling — many orgs don't publish these numbers, so totals underrepresent real reach. Extreme outliers (often unit-mismatches upstream) are filtered out.

2.0M
People served
from 2 orgs
89
Countries served
from 3 orgs
61
Partner organizations
from 3 orgs