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National Football League Players Association

The purposes of the nflpa are to promote and advance all nfl players and the sport of professional football, and to improve the economic and other working conditions of players as the union and exclusive collective bargaining representative of players in the national football league.

$170k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Health$350kRecreation & Sports$133kArts & Culture$130kEducation$125kHuman Services$124kYouth Development$120kEmployment$90kCrime & Legal$67kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $122,125, the rows itemized in this filing. The $170,114 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $47,989 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $114k
$16,750
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE VERB KIND INC$16,750
SILENCE THE SHAME INC$16,750
GOOD PROJECTS INC$16,750
TEAM RIVER RUNNER INC$16,750
MEN'S HEALTH NETWORK$16,750
GENYOUTH INC$15,000
THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY$15,000
LAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA$8,375
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 (FY18–23, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $17k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $13k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $13k → 14%GIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS: $5k → 6%FAMILY LIFE TIME SOLUTIONS INC: $17k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $17k → 17%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
SC
DC
GA
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$820k · 22 repeat orgs$531k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
29

Total granted

$820k
$497k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+2%

Still filing today

95%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • AL
    AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $80k · revenue +119%
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $80k · revenue +30%
  • AM
    Active Minds Inc
    3× · 2017–2020 · $60k · revenue +395%

Funded once

  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +2%
  • American Diabetes Association
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -4%
  • WESTERN JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $26k · revenue +4%
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
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
American Association of University Women Inc

Aauw advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.

Education
3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

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6
American Council On Education

Ace leads higher education with a united vision for the future, galvanizing our members to make change. the council collaborates across the sector to design solutions for today's challenges, serves the needs of a diverse student…

Education
7
Global Ties Us

Global ties u.s. (global ties) powers individuals, communities, and nations to build trust and advance peace and prosperity through international exchange.

International
8
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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9
International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
10
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
11
Upwardly Global

Upwardly global removes employment barriers for immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals while advancing the inclusion of their skills into the u.s. economy.

Employment
12
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Stroud Development Group. 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

51 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. 51 of the 54 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
29/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCWORKING AMERICA: $55,000 · OtherWORKING AMERICALOS ANGELES URBAN LEAGUE: $25,000 · OtherED BLOCK COURAGE FOUNDATION INC FORMERLY ED BLOCK COURAGE AWARD FNDT INC: $22,000 · OtherBE THE CHANGE INC: $20,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY HEALTH AND MENS PROMOTION SUMMIT INC: $18,333 · OtherTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $30,000 · OtherTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETYWESTERN JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION: $25,563 · OtherNATIONAL COLLEGE PLAYERS ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · OtherNATIONAL COLLEGE PLAYERS ASSOCIATIONLAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA: $25,125 · OtherUNITE HERE EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FUND: $25,000 · OtherTEAM RUBICON INC: $25,000 · Other+12 more: $118,150 · Other+12 moreSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $125,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INST…Silence the Shame Inc: $36,750 · Arts & CultureSilence the Sham…MEN'S HEALTH NETWORK: $33,500 · Arts & CultureMEN'S HEALTH NET…+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePlay Like a Girl: $53,217 · EducationPlay Like a Gir…The Conscious Kid: $50,167 · EducationThe Conscious K…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIV…THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM INC: $16,750 · EducationTHE ELEPHANT IN…THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationCOUNCIL ON LEGAL EDUCATION OPPORTUNITY INC: $10,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $8,500 · EducationCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationGenYOUTH Incorporated: $35,000 · PhilanthropyGenYOUTH Inc…GOOD PROJECTS INC: $33,500 · PhilanthropyGOOD PROJECT…FORCE BLUE INC: $33,500 · PhilanthropyFORCE BLUE I…OFF THE FIELD: $30,000 · PhilanthropyOFF THE FIEL…BASKET OF HOPE: $10,000 · PhilanthropyBASKET OF HO…CONGRESSIONAL FOOTBALL GAME FOR CHARITY INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCONGRESSIONA…Active Minds Inc: $60,200 · HealthActive Min…American Diabetes Association: $50,100 · HealthAmerican D…LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $10,000 · HealthLOS ANGELE…AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN B…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $43,500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $16,750 · Human ServicesSAMEHERE GLOBAL INC: $16,750 · Human ServicesFEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION INC: $5,250 · Human ServicesGIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS: $5,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $80,200 · Religion
Other$519,171Arts & Culture$200,250Education$190,134Philanthropy$152,000Health$130,300Human Services$87,250Religion$80,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $80,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetActive Minds Inc: $60,200 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWORKING AMERICA: $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPlay Like a Girl: $53,217 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetThe Conscious Kid: $50,167 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $50,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $43,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSilence the Shame Inc: $36,750 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetGenYOUTH Incorporated: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEN'S HEALTH NETWORK: $33,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetGOOD PROJECTS INC: $33,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFORCE BLUE INC: $33,500 over 2y, 19% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOFF THE FIELD: $30,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetWESTERN JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION: $25,563 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA: $25,125 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES URBAN LEAGUE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetED BLOCK COURAGE FOUNDATION INC FORMERLY ED BLOCK COURAGE AWARD FNDT INC: $22,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $16,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VERB KIND INC: $16,750 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSAMEHERE GLOBAL INC: $16,750 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetRETAIL WHOLESALE & DEPARTMENT STORE UNION COUNCIL OF ALABAMA RWDS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBASKET OF HOPE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOUNCIL ON LEGAL EDUCATION OPPORTUNITY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL FOOTBALL GAME FOR CHARITY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetTHE AUSCHWITZ JEWISH CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWe Care Inc: $5,400 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION INC: $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Nfl Foundation IncThe Rockefeller Found…The Ford FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Sempra FoundationTides FoundationAbbVie FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…The Pfizer Foundation…Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…The Blackbaud Giving …
Nfl Foundation IncNY18.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nfl Foundation Inc · The Rockefeller Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Sempra Foundation · Tides Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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 Football League Players Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Football League Players Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Team River Runner Incorporated: 19% of income from government
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 54 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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