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HOBEY BAKER MEMORIAL AWARD FOUNDATION

HOBEY BAKER MEMORIAL AWARD FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,626 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($28,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$116k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$39k
Net assets
$467k
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Hobey Baker Memorial Award Foundation does

Mission

To select the top ten college hockey players in the united states for each season, the recipient of the hobey baker memorial award for each season, and honor a legend of college hockey each year for their support and leadership in supporting college hockey.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Presented the high school character award to approximately 600 boys and girls playing high school hockey in 21 states during the 2024-2025 hockey season to individuals showing exemplary character for their sportsmanship.

    $74,615 spentof which $300 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $74,615.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($133k) Expenses 100 ($93k) Net assets 100 ($124k)2020 Revenue 121 ($160k) Expenses 74 ($69k) Net assets 173 ($216k)2021 Revenue 79 ($104k) Expenses 61 ($57k) Net assets 211 ($263k)2022 Revenue 77 ($102k) Expenses 56 ($53k) Net assets 251 ($313k)2023 Revenue 123 ($163k) Expenses 83 ($77k) Net assets 321 ($399k)2024 Revenue 127 ($168k) Expenses 113 ($106k) Net assets 371 ($461k)2025 Revenue 88 ($116k) Expenses 118 ($110k) Net assets 376 ($467k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (88)Expenses (118)Net assets (376)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $124k to $216k (+73%).

$124k
$216k
$263k
$313k
$399k
$461k
$467k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

204% of HOBEY BAKER MEMORIAL AWARD FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 25,057 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$39k
’19
$91k
’20
$47k
’21
$50k
’22
$86k
’23
$62k
’24
$7k
’25
43
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Jim Nichols

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed13131313
Joined·+1+1+1
No longer listed·111
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5 → $15k.

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of HOBEY BAKER MEMORIAL AWARD FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

HOBEY BAKER MEMORIAL AWARD FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HOBEY BAKER MEMORIAL AWARD FOUNDATION.

72%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 96% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

99% of HOBEY BAKER MEMORIAL AWARD FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state.

VA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HOBEY BAKER MEMORIAL AWARD FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · below the median
Months of reserve43.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 32%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

67%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds HOBEY BAKER MEMORIAL AWARD FOUNDATION?
HOBEY BAKER MEMORIAL AWARD FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,626 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($28,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HOBEY BAKER MEMORIAL AWARD FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $38,626 in grants to HOBEY BAKER MEMORIAL AWARD FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOBEY BAKER MEMORIAL AWARD FOUNDATION?
THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $28,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOBEY BAKER MEMORIAL AWARD FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing