California · Nonprofit
HOOP BUS INC
HOOP BUS INC (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $199,566 to it, the largest being BRONSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($45,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $200k
- Net assets
- $421k
What Hoop Bus Inc does
Mission
Hoopbus is rooted in the belief that basketball has the power to transform lives, build bridges, and uplift communities. Our mission is to spread love and build community through basketball, creating unforgettable experiences from local blocks to global cities and bringing the game where it's needed most.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, Hoopbus served communities by hosting programs and events in more than fifty cities. Our program services revolve around addressing three key impact pillars: youth programming, community revitalization projects, and resource distribution. Our primary youth program - the P.E. Takeover - reached an estimated 29,750 students across 85 programs run. It features a workshop and school assembly for elementary to high schoolers teaching gratitude, teamwork, discipline and self-love. Hoopbus ran or participated in 154 grassroots community events reaching an estimated 77,000 individuals. Hoopbus piloted a nine week mentorship program addressing the bridge between traditional education and lifeskills, teaching healthy lifestyles, creative entrepreneurship, expression through creativity, financial literacy, and leadership & confidence modules to 64 program graduates at Simon Tech in Watts. Lastly, Hoopbus hosted 94 public exhibition events with partners including the Knicks, the Celtics, When We All Vote, Meta, and The Mavericks bringing tournaments, dunk shows and clinics to an estimated 141,000 individuals. Our Court Refurbishment program revitalized three courts, Woodruff Place…
$1,090,213 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,090,213.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $182k to $468k (+157%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 2% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of HOOP BUS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Tobias Dimarco
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $39k → $88k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 HOOP BUS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 funders by total. 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
HOOP BUS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
60% 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 HOOP BUS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 64% · 2023 34% — 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
HOOP BUS INC draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
HOOP BUS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HOOP BUS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOOP BUS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOOP BUS INC?
- HOOP BUS INC (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $199,566 to it, the largest being BRONSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($45,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOOP BUS INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $199,566 in grants to HOOP BUS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOOP BUS INC?
- BRONSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOOP BUS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 10 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing