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NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION

NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,600 to it, the largest being KAZICKAS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$291M
Revenue FY2024
2
Funders on record
$3k
Grants received
$110M
Net assets
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($48M) Expenses 100 ($39M) Net assets 100 ($96M)2018 Revenue 121 ($58M) Expenses 129 ($51M) Net assets 106 ($103M)2019 Revenue 94 ($45M) Expenses 107 ($42M) Net assets 112 ($108M)2020 Revenue 141 ($68M) Expenses 70 ($27M) Net assets 154 ($149M)2021 Revenue 71 ($34M) Expenses 200 ($78M) Net assets 128 ($123M)2022 Revenue 80 ($38M) Expenses 108 ($42M) Net assets 108 ($104M)2023 Revenue 647 ($311M) Expenses 817 ($320M) Net assets 104 ($100M)2024 Revenue 605 ($291M) Expenses 753 ($295M) Net assets 114 ($110M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (605)Expenses (753)Net assets (114)

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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$9.0M
17
$7.6M
18
$3.1M
19
$40M
20
$44M
21
$3.8M
22
$8.2M
23
$3.5M
24
0.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $1k.

From the IRS filings of NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION’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

NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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

58%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100%broadly stable.

“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

100% of NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

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

17
19
New York 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Governance

26
board members
92%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 6 related entities

  • National Basketball Players Association Foundation · exempt
  • Nbpa Medical Research Foundation Inc · exempt
  • Puzzle Duck LLC · partnership
  • Off Court LLC · partnership
  • National Basketball Players Inc (Think450) · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION: 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 NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION?
NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,600 to it, the largest being KAZICKAS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,600 in grants to NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION.
Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION?
KAZICKAS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing