TSO Grant
Beneficiaries
The women of Tennis Serves Others are on a mission to give service and gifts to people, organizations, and communities in need. We would like to know more about you and your needs.
We have a beneficiary application process, and the members consider each beneficiary with care. If you would like to apply to be a Tennis Serves Others beneficiary, please download or fill out the online application.
Beneficiary Application
If you are interested in being considered for TSO’s Beneficiary grant, please fill out the online application below.
INSTRUCTIONS & INFORMATION:
In submitting this Grant Application, you are applying for consideration as a grant recipient from funds raised at TSO’s Annual Gala & Wimbledon Tournament (typically held in June).
Applications are due December 15, 2024. Former TSO grant recipients of more than $1,000 in the previous year are not eligible to apply until Fall of the next year. Additionally, if your grant was greater than $5000, you are not eligible to apply again for 5 years.
To be considered, please complete the following application by December 15, 2024. All complete applications will be reviewed by our Beneficiary Committee and the Tennis Serves Others Board of Directors. Incomplete or late applications will not be considered. If selected as a potential finalist by the Beneficiary Committee, in late January you will be asked to provide a compelling 3-minute video about your organization. These videos will be circulated to our full membership for voting. TSO reserves the right to award two equal grants. The grant amount will be determined after the annual Gala and Tournament fundraisers. No specific grant amounts are guaranteed.
If you were chosen as one of our primary beneficiaries, would your organization be able to:
- Create a short 3 minute video on your organization and need for a TSO grant?
- Advertise our event on your social media sites?
- Post our event on your website?
- Attend our fundraising event?
- Attend our membership meeting where beneficiaries will receive their check and present how the funds will specifically be used to serve others in their organization?
- Contribute an auction item?
NOTE:
- If needed, you may Save and Continue Later the application as follows:
- Click the SAVE AND CONTINUE LATER option at the bottom of the application
- A link will appear which you must copy and save
- When you are ready to continue the application, enter the link/URL (from the previous step) in a browser to access the application and continue.
- If questions, please contact Rhonda Glasscock, VP of Beneficiary, at (310) 614-9868.
- All applicants will be notified by the end of January.
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Our Beneficiaries
Our members give a tremendous amount of thought and consideration in choosing our Beneficiaries. We carry out our mission through providing services and financial gifts to beneficiaries in our local and global communities. We are proud to honor our most recent and past Beneficiaries.
2024 Beneficiaries
Waymakers – Offers individuals, families and communities the steadiest, surest, safest pathways to promising outcomes.
A University of California, Irvine professor, a few of his students and a Costa Mesa Police Department captain recognized the need to provide diversion counseling for delinquent youth and their families. As pioneers working within local law enforcement agencies, their efforts led to the creation of a new non-profit serving at risk youth in Orange County. Whether redirecting youth offenders, helping sheltered children get back on track, unifying troubled families, resolving community conflicts or empowering victims of violence, Waymakers clears the path so clients can advance beyond crisis.
Queen of Hearts Therapeutic Riding Center – A therapeutic riding center for persons with special needs.
Queen of Hearts Therapeutic Riding Center, Inc.’s mission is to improve the bodies, minds, spirits, and quality of life of persons with physical and/or developmental disabilities and/or mental illnesses through equine-assisted activities and therapies. All age students are accepted, and generally referred by physicians, therapists, and loved ones. Therapy sessions with the horses are individualized and developed and regularly assessed by our professional staff. A few of the disabling conditions our clients deal with include cerebral palsy, spina bifida, paraplegia, developmental and learning disabilities. While horse therapy is fairly new in therapeutic fields, its value is becoming more and more recognized and sought after. As we at the Queen of Hearts Therapeutic Riding Center track our clients’ progress and watch their joy as they regain a significant range of motion, we are amazed and gratified.
Past Beneficiaries
1in3out
2nd Street Hooligans
A Quarter Blue
A Step to Freedom
Acres of Love
ACEing Autism – 2018 Wimbledon Recipient
All Uganda
Boys and Girls Club of San Juan Capistrano
Bracken’s Kitchen
Breast Cancer Solutions
Canine Companions for Independence
Caterina’s Club
Child Abuse Prevention Center
Children’s Hospital of Orange County
City of Montebello Youth Tennis Program
Door of Faith Orphanage
Empower the Children
Elora
Extraordinary Lives
Families Forward
Fish for Life
Fristers – 2021 Wimbledon Recipient
Forever With Us – 2021 Wimbledon Recipient
Full of Hope
Gigi’s Playhouse
Good Shepherd Shelter – 2019 Wimbledon Recipient
Greendog Foundation
Grower’s First
Help God’s Children
Holbrook Family
Homefront America
Illumination Foundation
Inspiring Children Foundation
International Sanctuary – 2020 Wimbledon Recipient
Kern Community Tennis Association
Koalas in Care
Laura’s House
Loara High School
Mary’s Kitchen – 2018 Wimbledon Recipient
MaxLove Project – 2023 Wimbledon Recipient
Mission Hospital Foundation
Muriel’s Angels
Noble Path Foundation
Operation Help A Hero 2022 Wimbledon Recipient
Orphans in Ukraine
Orphans in Myanmar
Orange County Rescue Mission
Orangewood Foundation
Pete Brown Junior Tennis Program
Queen of Hearts Therapeutic Riding Center – 2024 Wimbledon Recipient
Red Bucket
Redwood Empire Food Bank
Ronald McDonald House Orange County
Rose Again Foundation 2022 Wimbledon Recipient
Shatto Park Youth Tennis
Share Our Selves
Star Rock Foundation
Team Niko
The Ark of San Juan Capistrano
The Teen Project – 2023 Wimbledon Recipient
Thomas House Shelter
Village of Hope
Waymakers – 2024 Wimbledon Recipient
Wings for Crossover – 2017 Wimbledon Recipient