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HOOP DREAMS- LIVE-LEARN-HOOP

HOOP DREAMS- LIVE-LEARN-HOOP (New Jersey) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,000 to it, the largest being THE 30 DAY FUND INC ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$50k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$41k
Net assets
$2k
0/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 73%
01What it does

What Hoop Dreams- Live-Learn-Hoop does

Mission

Hoop dreams aims to empower and expose youth from underserved communities to uplifting experiences. We strengthen participants social and interpersonal skills through various enrichment programs

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Prom Drive

    $15,150 spentof which $15,000 as grants
    43% of program spending
  2. Hoop Dream Court revitalization

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Hoop Dreams Basketball camp

    $20,095 spentof which $5,000 as grants
    57% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,245.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($41k) Expenses 100 ($31k) Net assets 100 ($11k)2024 Revenue 174 ($71k) Expenses 219 ($67k) Net assets 61 ($6k)2025 Revenue 123 ($50k) Expenses 179 ($55k) Net assets 19 ($2k)
202220242025
Revenue (123)Expenses (179)Net assets (19)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 2024 to 2025, from $11k to $7k (−40%).

$11k
$11k
$7k
202220242025
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.

2022
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

52% of HOOP DREAMS- LIVE-LEARN-HOOP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,075 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’22
$4k
’24
−$4k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $30k.

From the IRS filings of HOOP DREAMS- LIVE-LEARN-HOOP’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

HOOP DREAMS- LIVE-LEARN-HOOP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

61% 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 DREAMS- LIVE-LEARN-HOOP.

61%
largest funder
88%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 83% — 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 DREAMS- LIVE-LEARN-HOOP draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 3 states in all.

IL
PA
VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

HOOP DREAMS- LIVE-LEARN-HOOP has grown faster than half of the 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−9% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like HOOP DREAMS- LIVE-LEARN-HOOP

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 New Jersey

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

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

PA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOOP DREAMS- LIVE-LEARN-HOOP: 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 DREAMS- LIVE-LEARN-HOOP?
HOOP DREAMS- LIVE-LEARN-HOOP (New Jersey) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,000 to it, the largest being THE 30 DAY FUND INC ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HOOP DREAMS- LIVE-LEARN-HOOP have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $41,000 in grants to HOOP DREAMS- LIVE-LEARN-HOOP.
Who is the largest funder of HOOP DREAMS- LIVE-LEARN-HOOP?
THE 30 DAY FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOOP DREAMS- LIVE-LEARN-HOOP find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2022–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing