· Public charity
National Basketball Association Foundation
To drive economic opportunity for under-resourced youth, ages 14-24, by funding programs that generate successful transitions from school to meaningful employment with priority being given to organizations operating in nba team markets.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 113 grants below total $18,960,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $20,110,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,150,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k76 grants · $8.9M
- $250k+31 grants · $9.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 10000 DEGREES | $600,000 |
| CITY YEAR INC | $600,000 |
| NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE | $500,000 |
| PORTLAND OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER INC | $450,000 |
| BRAVEN INC | $400,000 |
| INROADS INC | $400,000 |
| SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE | $400,000 |
| NPOWER | $350,000 |
| OIC OF AMERICA | $350,000 |
| IMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW | $300,000 |
| ELSO INC | $300,000 |
| ORGANIZATION OF BLACK AEROSPACE PROFESSIONALS | $300,000 |
| AFRICAN YOUTH & COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION (AYCO) | $300,000 |
| AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS | $300,000 |
| STEM NOLA | $300,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $17.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 48% of National Basketball Association Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 15% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 10% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +1% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
127 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 84 since wound down; 68 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND3× · 2022–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +37%- NUNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC3× · 2022–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +4%
CITY YEAR INC3× · 2021–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +4%
Funded once
- EOEQUAL OPPORTUNITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $750k · revenue -26%
- OYOVERTOWN YOUTH CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $700k · revenue +9%
- BBBig Brothers Big Sisters Of Americagraduatedone grant, 2023 · $650k · revenue +47%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
Youth enrichment services, inc. was founded in 1994 for the purpose of providing at-risk teens and low-income families residing in allegheny county a comprehensive in-home peer mentoring program, juvenile alternative to detention,…
The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.
To advance students' economic and social mobility by improving public education.
The young people's project uses math literacy work to develop the abilities of elementary through high school students to succeed in school and in life.
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.
Heights is a new kind of organization, an economic mobility catalyst. we believe that creating pathways to educational and workforce success for low-income, black and brown, and first-generation-to-college students is the keystone of a…
Our mission is to bridge the divide between our regions youth and the growing skills gap in our workforce. we envision a city where our youth have the opportunity they need to succeed, and our businesses have the workforce they need to…
The mission is to address higher education access and career preparation by optimizing cross-sector collaborations and global partnerships that focus on identifiying and nurturing high potential youth of diverse backgrounds by developing…
Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…
Building Bridges Education (BBE) is a non-profit organization at the forefront of creating transformative, high-impact programming. BBE is committed to equity-driven initiatives that empower students to embark on journeys of…
With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridge Builders Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Escape Velocity Resources Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
302 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 302 of the 307 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds NPOWER INC ↗
- Who funds BRAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND OPPORTUNITIES INDUST CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC ↗
- Who funds Thurgood Marshall College Fund ↗
- Who funds THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds INROADS INC ↗
- Who funds The Marcus Graham Project ↗
- Who funds Youthprise ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Community Options Inc ↗
- Who funds BLACK GIRL VENTURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLACK GIRLS CODE INC ↗
- Who funds All Star Code Inc ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds ELMCOR YOUTH & ADULT ACTIVITIES INC ↗
- Who funds IMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds RUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds IMENTOR INC ↗
- Who funds RECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The Knowledge House Fellowship Inc ↗
- Who funds ROAD2HIRE ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION ↗
- Who funds MOBILIZEGREEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FOR TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds East Oakland Youth Development Center ↗
- Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Universal Music All Together Now Foundation Inc · Pwc Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Stand Together Foundation · Ally Charitable Foundation · Deloitte Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · JD Finish Line Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization National Basketball Association Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Elso Inc — 100% of income from government
- Ayco — 89% of income from government
- Civic Works Inc — 63% of income from government
- Reap Inc — 46% of income from government
- Black Parent Initiative — 45% of income from government
- Portland Opportunities Indust Center — 38% of income from government
- Children's Services of Roxbury Inc — 35% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Bridges from School to Work Inc — 33% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Action for Boston Community Development Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc — 7% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- National Center for Children and Families — 2% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Community Options Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- National Center On Institutions and Alternatives Inc — 0% of income from government
- Cmb Visions Unlimited Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.