· Public charity
Nfl Foundation Inc
NFL FOUNDATION INC.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $275k
- $10k–50k183 grants · $3.4M
- $50k–250k54 grants · $5.5M
- $250k+48 grants · $88M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| USA FOOTBALL | $45,514,566 |
| NCPG | $6,136,713 |
| BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC | $5,576,780 |
| LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION | $3,450,000 |
| EVERFI INC | $2,100,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $2,086,727 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC | $1,831,977 |
| GEN YOUTH FOUNDATION | $1,658,565 |
| USO | $1,619,500 |
| ENTERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $1,500,000 |
| ISOI TEAM INC | $1,126,128 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $1,017,000 |
| TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS | $1,017,000 |
| NFL PLAYER CARE FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| CLEVELAND BROWNS FOUNDATION | $983,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $17.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
745 repeat relationships — 198 still active in FY2025, 547 since wound down; 115 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.4M 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
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION6× · 2017–2025 · $25M · revenue +135%- BWBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2025 · $18M · revenue +53% · 80% of their budget
- NCNATIONAL COUNCIL ON PROBLEM GAMBLING INC2× · 2022–2025 · $12M · revenue +284%
Funded once
- SJSOCIAL JUSTICE WORKING GROUP PROGRAMone grant, 2019 · $29M
- PCPLAYER COALITIONone grant, 2019 · $9.3M
- PCPC CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $6.6M · revenue +28%
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…
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…
To support and promote positive youth development, social justice, and related causes
To educate and empower promising underserved youth to be leaders, champions and student-athletes by developing the skills necessary for success in high school, college and life.
Team impact is the only u.s. nonprofit that tackles the emotional trauma and social isolation experienced by children facing serious and chronic illnesses by matching them with a college athletic team. because no child should be sidelined…
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…
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
Washington nationals philanthropies is the official charitable arm of the washington nationals. its mission is to help children, families, and communities thrive through sports-based youth development and access to healthy food. the…
To create "a better world through rugby" by providing young people, primarily from underserved backgrounds, with a vitality for life both on and off the rugby field.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Indianapolis Colts Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gene & Jerry Jones Family Foundation. 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 20 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
960 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. 960 of the 2,000 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 USA FOOTBALL INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL ON PROBLEM GAMBLING INC ↗
- Who funds GenYOUTH Incorporated ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE ↗
- Who funds NFL PLAYER CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds ISOITEAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE COOPER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND BROWNS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHIFT WHY ↗
- Who funds USO OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK JETS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE INDIANAPOLIS COLTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE EAGLES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Denver Broncos Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE LEANDRO P RIZZUTO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA CARDINALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREEN BAY PACKERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON TEXANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE SEAHAWKS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles Chargers Charities ↗
- Who funds RAIDERS FOUNDATION ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Two Lights Foundation Inc · South Florida Sports Foundation Inc · Major League Baseball Charities Inc · Fanatics Charitable Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Wasserman Foundation · Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc · The Eagles Charitable Foundation Inc · Tampa Bay Buccaneers Foundation Inc · Kosasa Foundation · JD Finish Line Foundation Inc · Central Pacific Bank 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 Nfl Foundation Inc 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.