Aaron Judge hosted 232 young Bronx baseball players in August 2026; his ALL RISE Foundation also donated $9,999.99 to support Little League equipment | MLB News
The Aaron Judge ALL RISE Foundation put 232 Bronx Little Leaguers on a Fordham University field on August 11, 2026, and the Yankees captain spent the day with them while still working his way back from injury. Judge ran a free Baseball ProCamp with former Yankee Tyler Wade, a program backed by Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association. The kids came from nine neighborhood leagues, ran drills, raced by age group and posed for team photos.ALL RISE gave $9,999.99 to Bronx Little League programs for bats, baseballs and other gear, and the odd-looking figure was chosen on purpose. Judge also gave the group his answer on what matters most when you are learning the game. The camp is one piece of a foundation he started in 2018, and its tax filings show who has been paying for the rest.
Aaron Judge’s ALL RISE Foundation brings Baseball ProCamp to Bronx kids
The camp ran on Tuesday, August 11, at Fordham University, free of charge and closed to the general public. The foundation says it was made possible by a grant from the MLB-MLBPA Youth Development Foundation, with ALL RISE working alongside Little League International, GSE Worldwide and ProCamps. Little League Urban Initiative helped coordinate who showed up from around the borough. The foundation’s release, dated August 12 and posted on its site September 1, frames the day as a chance for kids to learn from a role model.Those 232 players belonged to nine Bronx programs: South Riverdale, Van Nest, Pelham Parkway, Pelham Bay, Parkchester, Jaws and Taino, Co-Op City, City Island and Castle Hill. Ten students from The Brotherhood Sister Sol, a local organization, joined them.Judge and Wade stayed on the field for the full day. They led drills, played games, ran races split by age group and traded stories from their own careers. Every team got a photo with the Yankees captain. The YES Network posted about the camp the same day, noting that Judge may still be working on his on-field return but has no shortage of action away from it.When asked which lesson from his early years mattered most, Judge told the players, “It’s important to hustle, but the most important is to be a good teammate.”The $9,999.99 donation came with its own logic. Judge wears No. 99, and the foundation says the Bronx has 99 Little League teams. The money is meant for baseballs, bats and other equipment for those programs. MLB.com and the foundation’s own release agree on the amount and the reasoning.Each camper also left with a swag bag. The contents came from DICK’S Sporting Goods, Fanatics, the MLB Players Association, Conagra Brands/David Seeds, Big League Chew, Topps, Rawlings, Jordan Brand, ALL RISE and ProCamps, and included baseball merchandise and memorabilia.
What does Aaron Judge’s ALL RISE Foundation do?
Judge founded ALL RISE in 2018 with a stated goal of building character in young people and steering them toward responsible citizenship. The foundation runs awards and incentive programs that reward academic improvement at schools and local groups, supports children and teens facing hard health or family circumstances, and holds fundraisers that feed its Mini-Grants and other programs. Its reach covers the Bronx, Fresno County and San Joaquin County in California.The list of programs goes well past baseball. It includes the Aspiring Leaders Initiative, a Linden High School scholarship, Bronx Educational All-Star Day, leadership master classes and a reading effort called ALL RISE to Read, plus the baseball camp itself. Its mission statement says it wants to engage kids in activities that help them reach their full potential.Public tax filings summarized by philanthropy.org show $435,000 across 21 grants from 15 funders between 2019 and 2024, according to philanthropy.org. Major League Baseball Charities is the largest, with $162,000 over three grants from 2022 to 2024. The Duane Davis Foundation gave $100,000 in two grants, and the Fanatics Charitable Foundation added $50,000 in 2024. Turn 2 Foundation and the McCormick Family Foundation each contributed $25,000, in 2022 and 2021.
Aaron Judge turned Yankees experiences into ALL RISE Foundation auction bids
The 9/9 for 99 auction gave Yankees fans a way to bid on time with Judge. The 2025 edition offered a chance at a once-in-a-lifetime Judge moment, a behind-the-scenes tour with the YES Network or a baseball trip through the Bronx. Bidding ran through allrise99.givesmart.com, and the piece appeared on August 29, 2025, as the auction was set to return.The money feeds Mini-Grants for youth projects, scholarships for high school seniors and leadership programs that put students in settings where they can grow.As for what ALL RISE says it has done since 2018, the group reports investing $87,000 in its Aspiring Leaders initiative and awarding $109,500 in Mini-Grants. It has hosted 1,205 kids at baseball camps and paid registration costs for educators, students and parents to attend Leadership Master Class webinars.One Mini-Grant recipient, the ACTS Foundation, told the outlet that ALL RISE support paid for weekly meals and classroom space. The money also sent two of its students to summer camp.Athlon traced the whole idea back to a mother, a mentor and a number Yankees fans know by heart. The format has continued into this season. On Friday, September 4, 2026, Athlon Sports reported that Judge launched another auction to raise funds, with seats to a Yankees home game and an autographed bat among the items. Judge, who has stayed active in funding the foundation, shared a link so fans could place bids, and he did it while still preparing for his own return to the lineup.
What is Aaron Judge’s net worth in 2026?
Celebrity Net Worth puts Judge’s net worth at $100 million. The site lists his salary at $40 million a year as Yankees captain and cautions that all of its net worth figures are estimates built from public sources.Before the 2022 season, Judge turned down a seven-year, $213.5 million extension offer from the Yankees. He then hit 62 home runs to break Roger Maris’ American League record and won the first of three MVP awards. On December 7, 2022, he signed a nine-year, $360 million deal, which the site says brought him an extra $146.5 million in guaranteed money.By the end of the 2025 season, he had collected about $156 million in MLB salary and signing bonuses, including a $1.8 million bonus after the 2013 draft. Another $40 million is due in 2026, and the same figure runs through 2031. Completing the contract would put his career earnings near $400 million.His endorsements include Jordan Brand, Ralph Lauren and Prime Hydration among his partners, along with Big League Chew and Ford. He is also the face of Ralph Lauren’s Polo 67 fragrance campaign.
