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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 132 grants below total $3,181,614 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,889,111 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $707,497 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
- Under $10k7 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k113 grants · $2.1M
- $50k–250k11 grants · $741k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $300,000 |
| EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION | $112,500 |
| LORRAINE CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| GOFUNDMEORG | $100,000 |
| MYRIAD USA INC | $78,102 |
| LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| CENTRO UNIDO LATINO AMERICANO | $50,000 |
| PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND | $50,000 |
| CHRIST SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| SHARE OUR STRENGTH | $50,000 |
| ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CHARLES ANTETOKOUNMPO FAMILY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF GEORGIA | $40,000 |
| YMA FASHION SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $37,500 |
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 (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 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
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.
Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAMS AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES
Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAMS AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES
Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAMS AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES
Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAMS AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES
Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAMS AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES
Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAMS AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES
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. 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.
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 +12% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC4× · 2020–2025 · $418k · revenue +21%- SISouthern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference3× · 2019–2023 · $409k · revenue +268%
LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO7× · 2017–2024 · $350k · revenue +207%
Funded once
- LFLA84 FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue -88%
- TSTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INCone grant, 2020 · $133k · revenue -20%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR PUERTO RICO INCone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -26%
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.
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…
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
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mourning Family Foundation Inc and 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.
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 16 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
447 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. 447 of the 540 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 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 LA84 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CORE PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds Project Life Inc ↗
- Who funds TRAE YOUNG FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Athletes vs Crohns & Colitis Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUR GENERATION FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 BE A LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE DREAMCHASERS UNITED 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: 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
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 Players 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.
- Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% 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.
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