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Negro League Baseball Legends Hall of Fame Baseball Heritage Museum

Negro League Baseball Legends Hall of Fame Baseball Heritage Museum (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $583,150 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($368,050). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$335k
Revenue FY2022
6
Funders on record
$583k
Grants received
$229k
Net assets
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%

Against its field

Negro League Baseball Legends Hall of Fame Baseball Heritage Museum has grown faster than half of the 15,683 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,683 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($143k) Expenses 100 ($92k) Net assets 100 ($98k)2018 Revenue 131 ($187k) Expenses 268 ($245k) Net assets 166 ($162k)2019 Revenue 165 ($235k) Expenses 211 ($193k) Net assets 209 ($204k)2020 Revenue 177 ($253k) Expenses 347 ($317k) Net assets 225 ($220k)2021 Revenue 261 ($373k) Expenses 344 ($315k) Net assets 284 ($278k)2022 Revenue 235 ($335k) Expenses 425 ($389k) Net assets 234 ($229k)
201720182019202020212022
Revenue (235)Expenses (425)Net assets (234)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

52% of Negro League Baseball Legends Hall of Fame Baseball Heritage Museum’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$51k
17
$58k
18
$42k
19
$64k
20
$58k
21
$53k
22
1.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $51k → $81k.

Funder
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'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
$10k
$10k
funders
2
2
5
3
1
1
1
1

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)68% 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 Negro League Baseball Legends Hall of Fame Baseball Heritage Museum’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

Negro League Baseball Legends Hall of Fame Baseball Heritage Museum leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

72% 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 Negro League Baseball Legends Hall of Fame Baseball Heritage Museum.

63%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 51% · 2019 67% · 2020 51% · 2021 45% · 2022 100% · 2023 100%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.

Where its funders are

68% of Negro League Baseball Legends Hall of Fame Baseball Heritage Museum'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 $186k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.

OH

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

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19
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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $397k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

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. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 Negro League Baseball Legends Hall of Fame Baseball Heritage Museum

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 Ohio

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 5%Fundraising 4%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Negro League Baseball Legends Hall of Fame Baseball Heritage Museum: 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 Negro League Baseball Legends Hall of Fame Baseball Heritage Museum?
Negro League Baseball Legends Hall of Fame Baseball Heritage Museum (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $583,150 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($368,050). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Negro League Baseball Legends Hall of Fame Baseball Heritage Museum have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $583,150 in grants to Negro League Baseball Legends Hall of Fame Baseball Heritage Museum, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Negro League Baseball Legends Hall of Fame Baseball Heritage Museum?
THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $368,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Negro League Baseball Legends Hall of Fame Baseball Heritage Museum find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 6funders 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