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MAMBA & MAMBACITA SPORTS FOUNDATION

MAMBA & MAMBACITA SPORTS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,893,623 to it, the largest being NIKE FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$5.7M
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$1.9M
Net assets
$49M
5/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 47%
01What it does

What Mamba & Mambacita Sports Foundation does

Mission

The Mamba & Mambacita Sports Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating positive impact for underserved athletes and boys and girls in sports. Founded through the vision and loving memory of kobe and gianna "gigi" bryant.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

The foundation advanced its mission to support youth development through sports and education by providing essential resources to local community organizations. The program distributed sports equipment to enhance access to athletic opportunities for underserved youth and awarded scholarships to further educational opportunities. These efforts enabled hundreds of young people to engage in healthy, skill-building activities, fostering teamwork, discipline, and personal growth. Through these initiatives, the foundation strengthened community partnerships and promoted equitable access to youth programming.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($382k) Expenses 100 ($316k) Net assets 100 ($73k)2020 Revenue 1750 ($6.7M) Expenses 80 ($251k) Net assets 8841 ($6.5M)2021 Revenue 557 ($2.1M) Expenses 286 ($904k) Net assets 10511 ($7.7M)2022 Revenue 5500 ($21M) Expenses 294 ($929k) Net assets 37222 ($27M)2023 Revenue 3944 ($15M) Expenses 286 ($902k) Net assets 60051 ($44M)2024 Revenue 1504 ($5.7M) Expenses 507 ($1.6M) Net assets 67009 ($49M)
201720202021202220232024
Revenue (1504)Expenses (507)Net assets (67009)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 2022 to 2023, from $27M to $44M (+61%).

$109k
$6.5M
$15M
$27M
$44M
$49M
201720202021202220232024
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.

2017
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

30% of MAMBA & MAMBACITA SPORTS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$67k
’17
$6.4M
’20
$1.2M
’21
$20M
’22
$14M
’23
$4.2M
’24
15
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.

201720202021202220232024
Listed9126666
Joined··+2+0+0+0
No longer listed··8000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $19k → $62k.

8 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 MAMBA & MAMBACITA SPORTS 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

MAMBA & MAMBACITA SPORTS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

45% 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 MAMBA & MAMBACITA SPORTS FOUNDATION.

53%
largest funder
72%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 74% · 2019 100% · 2020 37% · 2021 99% · 2022 93% · 2023 41% — 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.

How long its funders stay

8% of MAMBA & MAMBACITA SPORTS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

MAMBA & MAMBACITA SPORTS FOUNDATION draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.

NY
OR
NV
CA
NC
TX

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $521k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

MAMBA & MAMBACITA SPORTS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin72% · top quartile
Months of reserve15.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)47% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like MAMBA & MAMBACITA SPORTS FOUNDATION

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

54% of spending goes to programs.

Program 54%Management 41%Fundraising 5%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

16%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAMBA & MAMBACITA SPORTS FOUNDATION: 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 MAMBA & MAMBACITA SPORTS FOUNDATION?
MAMBA & MAMBACITA SPORTS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,893,623 to it, the largest being NIKE FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MAMBA & MAMBACITA SPORTS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,893,623 in grants to MAMBA & MAMBACITA SPORTS FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MAMBA & MAMBACITA SPORTS FOUNDATION?
NIKE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MAMBA & MAMBACITA SPORTS FOUNDATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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