Oklahoma · Nonprofit
NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME
NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME (Oklahoma) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,351,766 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($353,400). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $9.3M
What National Wrestling Hall of Fame does
Mission
Promotion of amateur wrestling through hall of fame induction ceremonies, campaigns, museum exhibits, special events, and programming that broadens awareness and inspiration for the sports cultural heritage.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Other program services to help promote amateur wrestling.
$661,105 spent$289,369 earned by the program73% of program spendingThe state charters support and promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and recognizes people involved in wrestling in each state that has made significant contributions to wrestling and builds a support group for wrestling and its activities.
$180,691 spent$299,819 earned by the program20% of program spendingHonors week is an event used to honor standout athletes in wrestling.
$58,919 spent$103,875 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $900,715.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6.1M to $7.5M (+24%).
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 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Lee Roy Smith
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 11 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $72k → $157k.
10 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 76% · 2019 34% · 2020 55% · 2021 46% · 2022 63% · 2023 39% — growing more concentrated.
“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
21% of NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
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
60% of NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $545k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Oklahoma, across 14 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $807k 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.
Against its field
NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like NATIONAL WRESTLING 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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME: 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 WRESTLING HALL OF FAME?
- NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME (Oklahoma) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,351,766 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($353,400). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $1,351,766 in grants to NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $353,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 33 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