2015 ANNUAL REPORT BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MESSAGE Dear Friends, At the USTA Foundation, we often talk about utilizing the powerful combination of Also new for 2015 was the implementation of our Celebrity & Player Advisory Council, tennis and education to change lives – and we do so because we believe in our a group of global ambassadors dedicated to communicating our vision and helping mission, that combining capital with the right human resources can change a kid’s to fulfill our mission. The council is being led by longtime supporter Alec Baldwin life, can shape a veteran’s future and can impact the everyday well-being of those and includes Bob and Mike Bryan, Katie Couric, Jim Courier, Mary Joe Fernandez, with disabilities. Billie Jean King, Todd Martin, Sloane Stephens and MaliVai Washington. We are in the business of serving up dreams, and what an incredibly important These new faces helped to convey our longstanding successes. In 2015, we and rewarding business that is. By teaming up with and supporting a nationwide held our Fourth Annual Military Appreciation Day during the US Open, honored network of organizations dedicated to enhancing the lives of those in need, we a new set of Arthur Ashe Essay Contest winners and helped provide support continue to make a meaningful impact. for our 500 National Junior Tennis & Learning chapters, which reach more than 225,000 youths every year. And to make sure we were giving those kids the best As evidence, look no further than our work in 2015. In all, we raised more than opportunities to succeed, we conducted a study analyzing our Academic Creative $4 million. That enabled us to distribute more than $2.7 million in grants and Engagement (ACE) Curriculum. The results were overwhelmingly positive, proving scholarships, bringing our total to more than $22 million awarded, and allowed us that the ACE Curriculum is statistically significant in changing children’s attitudes to reach more than 200,000 under-resourced children, individuals with disabilities, and behaviors toward math and literacy. military families and communities in need. These achievements, added together, also equaled a four-star rating from Charity That is real support that makes a real difference in the lives of so many. Of course, Navigator, providing the USTA Foundation with a seal of approval to let our we didn’t go it alone. The Foundation in 2015 received grants from ESPN and supporters know that we will use their donations prudently and effectively. Coca-Cola, among many others, and teamed up with like-minded organizations to best serve our constituencies. There is no greater ideal than to make the world a better place. Effecting change and impacting lives is not easy, however. It takes hard work, dedication and, yes, We also bolstered our fundraising efforts, relying on a mix of time-tested models money. The combination of all three, complemented by the undeniably powerful and new opportunities. Once again, we hosted a successful World Tennis Day combination of tennis and education, can change lives. For the USTA Foundation, fundraiser, and our US Open events – the Opening Night Gala and Pro-Am – serving up dreams is not a marketing slogan, it’s a mission, and we’re proud to raised more than $1 million. In addition, we expanded our reach, teaming up with have served it so faithfully once again in 2015. USTA Player Development and tennis legend Nick Bollettieri to host the inaugural Connecticut Pro-Am, with the proceeds benefitting five tennis and education programs in the Nutmeg State, and pairing with former USTA Foundation President Pam Shriver to host the first West Coast Pro-Am, which raised funds for tennis and James Blake Thomas S. Chen Daniel J. Faber education programs in Southern California. Chairman President Executive Director OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES: 2015 • To recognize the basic values embedded in tennis and education, including fun, discipline, ANNUAL hard work, improvement and success. • To promote fitness, health, citizenship, REPORT leadership and self-esteem. • To support efforts in tennis and education that help under-resourced youth, military ORGANIZATIONAL BACKGROUND AND MISSION STATEMENT: personnel, veterans and their families and those with disabilities. USTA Foundation Incorporated is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that was incorporated in 1994 as the philanthropic entity of the • To be inclusive of individuals from all cultural and ethnic backgrounds. United States Tennis Association Incorporated. The mission of the USTA Foundation is to bring tennis and education together to change • To encourage individuals to pursue their goals and highest dreams by succeeding and becoming lives. The USTA Foundation offers financial support to tennis and responsible adults. education programs nationwide that provide positive role models and academic assistance and also assists with providing resources to teach life skills to under-resourced children, individuals with disabilities and military heroes. The USTA Foundation also provides technical support to the programs to help maximize program efficiencies, analyze effectiveness and shares best practices with other programs. The USTA Foundation awards tennis and academic scholarships to high school seniors in all 17 sections of the USTA. TENNIS, EDUCATION AND HEALTH GRANT PROGRAMS: Our Impact: The USTA Foundation’s tennis and education programs improve The Academic Creative Engagement™ (ACE) health, build character, teach skills and motivate under-resourced curriculum has a statistically significant impact students to strive for academic excellence. on participants’ behavior and attitudes towards learning, math and literacy skills. Demographics of Our Network: % of USTA Foundation scholarship recipients attend 91 college for four years 5-18 % of our coaches report that 50/50 Gender Split Years Old tennis has made a positive 97 impact on kids’ lives % of our coaches report that $50K health and wellness is valued by kids in our network 77% of families earn under $50K 70% Ethnically Diverse 88 % of our coaches report that kids in our network value 500 Chapters 92 education and learning 4,500 Locations 4,500 Coaches % of our coaches report that 225,000 Children kids within our network value 47/50 Largest cities 89 their own social development TENNIS & EDUCATION PROGRAMS The USTA Foundation’s tennis and education programs improve tennis, education and health outcomes for under-resourced youth by helping kids gain the requisite knowledge, skills and attitude needed to develop healthy habits. USTA NATIONAL JUNIOR TENNIS & LEARNING (NJTL) The National Junior Tennis & Learning network (NJTL) is the Foundation’s proven nonprofit delivery network of 500 local chapters that collectively impact 225,000 children each year. NJTL was founded in 1969 by Arthur Ashe, Charlie Pasarell and Sheridan Snyder with the goal of providing low-cost tennis and education programming to America’s underserved youth, without regard to race, gender or income. A strategic priority of the USTA Foundation is to build the capacity of 15 NJTL chapters so they can join the already existing 21 four-star chapters. To be a four-star chapter, local NJTLs must meet all 26 criteria in the areas of tennis programming, educational programming, depth, breadth, budget and nonprofit best practices. GAINESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY TENNIS ASSOCIATION GAINESVILLE, FL The Gainesville Area Community Tennis Association (GACTA) promotes health, character development and academic achievement through tennis. GACTA’s largest program is the Aces in Motion (AIM) tennis outreach program. Through AIM, GACTA focuses on underserved youth in its local community, including those living in low-income neighborhoods and those with disabilities. To achieve its mission, GACTA partners with schools, the city parks and recreation department, the Gainesville Police Department and a number of other nonprofits to provide quality tennis and life-skills instruction, mentorship and academic support to at-risk children of all abilities. GACTA currently reaches more than 450 elementary, middle and high school-aged youth each week at 12 different sites in the Gainesville area. The organization has been included in the USTA Foundation NJTL Capacity Building program for the past two years. The training, consulting and funding GACTA has received through this program have been extremely beneficial to the organization, said GACTA officials, both in terms of the program’s impact on the community as well as its own health and sustainability. LEGACY YOUTH TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION PHILADELPHIA, PA Legacy Youth Tennis and Education is a tennis-based youth development organization that prepares young people, especially those from under-resourced families and communities, for success as individuals and as active, responsible citizens. Legacy does so through an innovative tennis, education, life skills and leadership development model. In addition to operating its 16 courts and classrooms at the USTA Regional Training Center in the East Falls section of Philadelphia, Legacy SAN DIEGO DISTRICT TENNIS ASSOCIATION also delivers programming to more than 40 schools and MILITARY ADAPTIVE TENNIS—SAN DIEGO, CA recreation centers throughout the Philadelphia area. For the fourth straight year, the San Diego District Tennis Each year, Legacy serves an economically and Association, in partnership with Naval Medical Center culturally diverse population of about 4,000 San Diego and Balboa Tennis Club, hosted a national young people, ages 4 to 18. Founded in 1952, the adaptive tennis camp for more than 50 wounded, ill and organization is one of the longest-running NJTL injured service members, veterans and their caregivers. chapters in the country. In 2015, the USTA named Participants ranged in age from 20 to 91, came from 23 Legacy the NJTL Chapter of the Year, distinguishing it different states and represented all military branches and from more than 500 tennis organizations nationwide. major ethnic groups. The majority were beginning tennis players, but after 12 hours of instruction from some of San Diego’s best pros, they were able to rally and compete in a friendly round-robin competition designed to pull together all the lessons of the week.