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National Basketball Players Association

The NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION (nbpa) serves to protect and advance the rights of our players.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$375,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$800,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$442M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations National Basketball Players Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EmploymentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$2.0M40%
FY20243$1.1M0%
FY20233$1.4M33%
FY20223$1.0M0%
FY20213$452k67%
FY20202$246k50%
FY20191$809k0%
FY20171$500kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$4.6MHealth$468kHuman Services$431k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($453k), not named here.

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About National Basketball Players Association

How much does National Basketball Players Association give?
National Basketball Players Association reported 5 grants totaling $1,982,027 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does National Basketball Players Association fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (84%), Health (9%), Human Services (8%).
Who are National Basketball Players Association's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Womens National Basketball Players Association ($4.3M), Basketball Players Union Dba Next Gen Basketball Players Union ($1.5M), Nbpa Medical Research Foundation Inc ($525k).
Does National Basketball Players Association fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is National Basketball Players Association based?
National Basketball Players Association is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 7 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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