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NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME

NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME (Massachusetts) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,226,676 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,574,849). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$12M
Funders on record
48
Grants received
$6.2M
Net assets
$20M
23/48 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame does

Mission

To provide for the general public a memorial to the originator of basketball, including a hall of fame for basketball greats, a museum and a library.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To provide for the general public a memorial to the originator of basketball, including a hall of fame for basketball greats, a museum and a library.

    $5,887,349 spent$4,148,316 earned by the program
    63% of program spending

  2. Enshrinement

    $1,101,704 spent$1,472,320 earned by the program
    12% of program spending

  3. Tip off classic - ncaa sanctioned exempt tournament involving major collegiate programs to showcase the skills of players at the college level.

    $1,463,151 spent$1,016,888 earned by the program
    16% of program spending

  4. High school and golf tournaments

    $897,068 spent$1,085,631 earned by the program
    10% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,349,272.

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 ($13M) Expenses 100 ($10M) Net assets 100 ($15M)2018 Revenue 157 ($20M) Expenses 112 ($12M) Net assets 158 ($24M)2019 Revenue 88 ($11M) Expenses 118 ($12M) Net assets 149 ($22M)2020 Revenue 42 ($5.4M) Expenses 79 ($8.1M) Net assets 128 ($19M)2021 Revenue 156 ($20M) Expenses 136 ($14M) Net assets 167 ($25M)2022 Revenue 91 ($12M) Expenses 133 ($14M) Net assets 153 ($23M)2023 Revenue 103 ($13M) Expenses 139 ($14M) Net assets 144 ($22M)2024 Revenue 92 ($12M) Expenses 127 ($13M) Net assets 136 ($20M)
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Revenue (92)Expenses (127)Net assets (136)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 2017 to 2018, from $20M to $29M (+44%).

$20M
$29M
$33M
$33M
$38M
$31M
$29M
$28M
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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
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

31% of NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 810 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.6M
’17
$8.6M
’18
−$813k
’19
−$2.7M
’20
$6.1M
’21
−$2.1M
’22
−$1.0M
’23
−$1.2M
’24
1.6
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.

Chief executive

John Doleva

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed6262615656555828
Joined·+1+9+1+6+3+6+9
No longer listed·110664339
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $198k → $738k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
Edward Charles Foundationunclassified
$694k
Grand Canyon Universityunclassified
$380k
Amherst College Trusteesunclassified
$25k
funders
8
8
13
8
15
16
19
14
13
3

19 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $1.3M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Basketball Players Association Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME raised.

From the IRS filings of NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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

NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

70% 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 NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME.

25%
largest funder
49%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 68% · 2019 39% · 2020 31% · 2021 26% · 2022 19% · 2023 36% — 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

36% of NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 12 states in all.

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
CA
AZ
LA
GA
TX
FL

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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

NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 19 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Organizations like NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME

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 Massachusetts

Natick Travel Basketball Inc82%The Sports Museum of New England Inc79%Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc79%Irish Cultural Centre Inc79%Massachusetts Youth Soccer Association Incorporated79%Boston Preservation Alliance Inc78%The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girls78%Newton Historical Society Inc78%

Nationally

National Basketball Social Justice Coalition Inc85%New Renaissance Basketball Association Inc84%National Football Museum Inc84%National Junior Basketball League82%Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Inc82%Natick Travel Basketball Inc82%The National Jazz Museum in Harlem81%Greenwich Historical Society Inc81%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 25%Fundraising 3%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

90%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 7 states

NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
AZ
FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Springfield Riverfront Development Corp (Srdc) - 04-3341427 · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME?
NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME (Massachusetts) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,226,676 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,574,849). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME have?
IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $6,226,676 in grants to NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,574,849 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 48 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