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National Basketball Players Association Foundation

The nbpa foundation provides strategic funding and support while also communicating the players' endeavors to the world in order to accelerate and maximize the impact.

$3.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
132
Grants FY2025still arriving
31
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$16MYouth Development$2.8MArts & Culture$1.6MEducation$1.2MInternational$1.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$958kHuman Services$806kPhilanthropy$713kOther$0
02FY2025 · 132 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 132 grants below total $3,181,614, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,889,111 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $707,497 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k113 grants · $2.1M
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $741k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$15,000
Median grant
31
States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$300,000
EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION$112,500
GOFUNDMEORG$100,000
LORRAINE CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM FOUNDATION$100,000
MYRIAD USA INC$78,102
CENTRO UNIDO LATINO AMERICANO$50,000
PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND$50,000
LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION$50,000
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$50,000
CHRIST SCHOOL$50,000
SHARE OUR STRENGTH$50,000
CHARLES ANTETOKOUNMPO FAMILY FOUNDATION$40,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF GEORGIA$40,000
YMA FASHION SCHOLARSHIP FUND$37,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $20k → 10%JUGLIFE FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $25k → 21%AMINU GOOD WORKS FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 8%LIKE A CHILD FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%GROUP SEVEN CHILDRENS FOUNDATION CORP: $50k → 7%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%JUGLIFE FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%CITY CENTER OUTREACH IN: $20k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S PLACE AT HOME SAFE INC: $20k → 11%AMINU GOOD WORKS FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 8%THE ATLANTA CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%ERIC SNOW FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 13%JUGLIFE FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%ATLANTA CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%TIDES CENTER: $50k → 10%JUGLIFE FOUNDATION: $24k → 14%THE ATLANTA CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $40k → 14%TIDES CENTER: $25k → 10%JUGLIFE FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%THE ATLANTA CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC: $25k → 17%THE CAMERON PAYNE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 17%THE CAMERON PAYNE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 17%CAMERON PAYNE FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%FRIENDS OF BERSTON: $43k → 16%THE CAMERON PAYNE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 17%GIDEON'S PROMISE INC: $25k → 13%THE GIFT OF LEARNING FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 13%COVENANT HOUSE: $50k → 17%PROJECT LIFE INC: $25k → 13%PROJECT LIFE INC: $25k → 13%PROJECT LIFE INC: $25k → 13%PROJECT LIFE INC: $25k → 13%PROJECT LIFE INC: $25k → 13%PROJECT LIFE NOW: $25k → 13%AL OTRO LADO: $25k → 14%AL OTRO LADO INC: $25k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $25k → 14%FULL OF GRACE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $113k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%CARMELO ANTHONY FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%CARMELO ANTHONY FOUNDATION: $40k → 14%AYTON FAMILY FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%JALEN JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%MOTIVATE ONE FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $707k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$296k · 42% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAMS AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES

Sub-Saharan Africa$216k · 31% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAMS AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES

North America (Canada and Mexico)$94k · 13% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAMS AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES

Central America and the Caribbean$51k · 7% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAMS AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES

East Asia and the Pacific$35k · 5% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAMS AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES

South America$15k · 2% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAMS AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 195 repeat orgs$6.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

195 repeat relationships: 62 still active in FY2025, 133 since wound down; 57 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

195
254

Total granted

$16M
$5.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+11%

Still filing today

81%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $418k · revenue +21%
  • SI
    Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
    3× · 2019–2023 · $409k · revenue +268%
  • LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO
    7× · 2017–2024 · $350k · revenue +207%

Funded once

  • LF
    LA84 FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue -88%
  • TS
    THE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2020 · $133k · revenue -20%
  • LC
    Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -51%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Young Athlete Foundation
Youth Development
2
The Shaquille O'neal Foundation

The shaquille o'neal foundation's mission is to create pathways for underserved youth, to help them achieve their full potential. the foundation works to instill hope and bring about change in communities, collectively shaping a brighter…

Youth Development
3
Michael-Gene Kids Basketball Foundation
Human Services
4
Fastbreak Foundation
Philanthropy
5
John Jordan Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Youth Sports Empowerment Foundation
—
7
Nba Foundation Inc
Education
8
Dallas Mavericks Foundation
Philanthropy
9
The Lindy Infante Foundation
Recreation & Sports
10
Junior Champions Foundation
—
11
King Hoops United

Empower the youth of new york city through basketball, providing them with academic enrichment, career development, and a strong sense of community to unlock their full potential

Youth Development
12
The Baseball Inc

The base ball, inc. d/b/a the base is a not-for-profit organization working to shift the national mindset and re-imagine pathways to success for urban youth. founded in roxbury, ma, the base operates in boston and on the westside of…

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mourning Family Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Arizona Next Level Basketball Found. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

447 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 447 of the 540 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

39
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
98
Early backer (in before they grew)
414/447
Grantees still filing
250/447
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $1,080,960 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION …PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $350,362 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND…THE GIVING BACK FUND: $330,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING BACK FUNDENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $250,000 · PhilanthropyENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FO…GASOL FOUNDATION: $170,000 · Philanthropy+30 more: $2,472,490 · Philanthropy+30 moreLEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO: $350,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEARN FRESH EDUCA…NEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC: $235,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH…PEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL: $193,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEACEPLAYERS INTE…PAT CONNAUGHTON FOUNDATION: $175,000 · Youth DevelopmentPAT CONNAUGHTON F…HOUR GENERATION FOUNDATION: $145,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEAM TAKEOVER INC: $136,000 · Youth DevelopmentROBINS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE DREAMCHASERS UNITED INC: $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentBE A LIGHT INC: $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentDURANT FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $110,000 · Youth Development+20 more: $1,384,044 · Youth Development+20 moreWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $350,000 · OtherWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY+81 more: $5,473,371 · Other+81 moreEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $300,000 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHA…ATLANTA CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 · Human ServicesATLANTA CH…JUGLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $174,214 · Human ServicesJUGLIFE FO…Project Life Inc: $150,000 · Human ServicesProject Li…Cameron Payne Foundation: $120,000 · Human ServicesCameron Pa…THE CARMELO ANTHONY FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesTHE CARMEL…AMINU GOOD WORKS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesOperation Warm Inc: $99,450 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF BERSTON: $77,500 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $75,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $65,000 · Human ServicesHUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATION DIVAC CORPORATION: $65,000 · Human Services+6 more: $300,000 · Human Services+6 moreMYRIAD USA INC: $522,027 · InternationalMYRIAD US…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $418,333 · InternationalWORLD CEN…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF GEORGIA INC: $222,000 · InternationalAMERICAN …UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $217,529 · InternationalUNITED ST…SERGE IBAKA FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 · InternationalSERGE IBA…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $80,000 · InternationalCHARLES ANTETOKOUNMPO FAMILY FOUNDATION: $65,000 · International+1 more: $50,000 · InternationalSouthern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: $408,712 · Recreation & SportsSouthern …DRIVE NATION FOUNDATION: $132,300 · Recreation & SportsDRIVE NAT…ARIZONA NEXT LEVEL BASKETBALL FOUND: $102,500 · Recreation & SportsARIZONA N…CENTER FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE THROUGH SPORT: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTER FO…NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsNEXT DOOR…TONY BRADLEY ELITE: $98,830 · Recreation & SportsTONY BRAD…Every Kid Sports: $75,000 · Recreation & SportsWV Thunder: $75,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE MORNINGSTAR FOUNDATION INC: $57,500 · Recreation & Sports+11 more: $475,500 · Recreation & Sports+11 moreNAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME: $1,260,000 · Arts & CultureLorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation: $125,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $125,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$4,653,812Youth Development$3,238,044Other$5,823,371Human Services$1,886,164International$1,669,889Recreation & Sports$1,625,342Arts & Culture$1,510,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME: $1,260,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $1,080,960 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $522,027 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $418,333 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: $408,712 over 3y, 13% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $350,362 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO: $350,000 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $350,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $330,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC: $235,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF GEORGIA INC: $222,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $217,529 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL: $193,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetATLANTA CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetPAT CONNAUGHTON FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetJUGLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $174,214 over 6y, 25% of budgetGASOL FOUNDATION: $170,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetTHE LEBRON JAMES FAMILY FOUNDATION: $170,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetOPERATION GRADUATION: $162,400 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetCORE PROGRAMS INC: $150,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetProject Life Inc: $150,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetTHE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLA84 FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTRAE YOUNG FAMILY FOUNDATION: $149,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION: $146,395 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetHOUR GENERATION FOUNDATION: $145,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetAthletes vs Crohns & Colitis Inc: $145,000 over 6y, 31% of budgetCHRIST SCHOOL INC: $140,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTEAM TAKEOVER INC: $136,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetROBINS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 over 6y, 62% of budgetTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC: $133,333 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDRIVE NATION FOUNDATION: $132,300 over 4y, 75% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY: $130,138 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetLorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation: $125,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE DREAMCHASERS UNITED INC: $125,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetBE A LIGHT INC: $125,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $120,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCameron Payne Foundation: $120,000 over 5y, 56% of budgetDURANT FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTHE CARMELO ANTHONY FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetDREAMBUILDERS FOUNDATION INC: $107,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTHE DINWIDDIE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $107,500 over 4y, 52% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA NEXT LEVEL BASKETBALL FOUND: $102,500 over 2y, 24% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME ↗
  • Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference ↗
  • Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO ↗
  • Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
  • Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds PEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PAT CONNAUGHTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JUGLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GASOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE LEBRON JAMES FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION GRADUATION ↗
  • Who funds CORE PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds Project Life Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LA84 FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRAE YOUNG FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOUR GENERATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Athletes vs Crohns & Colitis Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHRIST SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds TEAM TAKEOVER INC ↗
  • Who funds ROBINS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds DRIVE NATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Lorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE DREAMCHASERS UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds BE A LIGHT INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Edward Charles Founda…Wasserman FoundationNational Basketball A…Mirnahill FoundationLaureus Sport for Goo…Giving Grousbeck Fazz…La Clippers FoundationNfl Foundation IncPlayers Philanthropy …The Los Angeles Dodge…Durant Family Charita…JD Finish Line Founda…
Edward Charles FoundationCA26.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edward Charles Foundation · Wasserman Foundation · National Basketball Association Foundation · Mirnahill Foundation · Laureus Sport for Good Foundation USA · Giving Grousbeck Fazzalari Dated April 20 2011 · La Clippers Foundation · Nfl Foundation Inc · Players Philanthropy Fund Inc · The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation · Durant Family Charitable Foundation · JD Finish Line Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization National Basketball Players Association Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Basketball Players Association Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 240%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Self Enhancement Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get no government money at all
32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to National Basketball Players Association Foundation?

Find your warmest path to National Basketball Players Association Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 540 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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