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SIXERS YOUTH FOUNDATION

SIXERS YOUTH FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,613,718 to it, the largest being HARRIS PHILANTHROPIES INC ($654,118). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.4M
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$862k
14/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What Sixers Youth Foundation does

Mission

To use the power of sport to inspire and educate future generations in the communities where fans live, work and play.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Sixers Youth Foundation invests in organizational programs that impact underserved youth in neighborhoods throughout greater philadelphia. Foundation philanthropy supports innovative ways to create opportunities for young people to cultivate their social-emotional, academic, and physical behaviors and skills on the basketball court, in the classrooms, and in their communities. In the fiscal year the organization invested $895,666 in philanthropic investments, impacted 83,888 youth and raised $1,381,344 dollars.

    $1,074,102 spentof which $895,666 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,074,102.

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 ($688k) Expenses 100 ($512k) Net assets 100 ($285k)2018 Revenue 144 ($991k) Expenses 116 ($595k) Net assets 239 ($682k)2019 Revenue 160 ($1.1M) Expenses 146 ($745k) Net assets 364 ($1.0M)2020 Revenue 135 ($926k) Expenses 252 ($1.3M) Net assets 237 ($674k)2021 Revenue 138 ($946k) Expenses 93 ($474k) Net assets 402 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 139 ($955k) Expenses 206 ($1.1M) Net assets 367 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 158 ($1.1M) Expenses 259 ($1.3M) Net assets 284 ($809k)2024 Revenue 211 ($1.4M) Expenses 273 ($1.4M) Net assets 302 ($862k)
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Revenue (211)Expenses (273)Net assets (302)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 2020 to 2021, from $721k to $1.3M (+74%).

$627k
$1.1M
$1.1M
$721k
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.6M
$1.2M
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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

115% of SIXERS YOUTH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,053 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$176k
’17
$397k
’18
$355k
’19
−$362k
’20
$472k
’21
−$100k
’22
−$238k
’23
$53k
’24
9.8
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

Leslie Walker

Executive director

Board chair

Marjorie Harris

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed612121112111010
Joined·+8+0+0+2+0+0+0
No longer listed·2011110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $42k → $105k.

8 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 SIXERS YOUTH 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

SIXERS YOUTH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

48% 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 SIXERS YOUTH FOUNDATION.

41%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 100% · 2019 32% · 2020 100% · 2021 82% · 2022 82% · 2023 33% — 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

13% of SIXERS YOUTH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

SIXERS YOUTH FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 4 states in all.

NY
PA
MO
FL

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

’17
’19
’21
’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $686k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

SIXERS YOUTH FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve9.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like SIXERS YOUTH 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.

In New Jersey

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 13%Fundraising 10%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

56%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

PA
NJ

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Philadelphia 76ers LP · partnership

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Questions and answers

Who funds SIXERS YOUTH FOUNDATION?
SIXERS YOUTH FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,613,718 to it, the largest being HARRIS PHILANTHROPIES INC ($654,118). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SIXERS YOUTH FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,613,718 in grants to SIXERS YOUTH FOUNDATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SIXERS YOUTH FOUNDATION?
HARRIS PHILANTHROPIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $654,118 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SIXERS YOUTH FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing