Connecticut · Nonprofit
THE BLACK FIVES FOUNDATION
THE BLACK FIVES FOUNDATION (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $855 to it, the largest being Annie E Casey Foundation Inc ($800). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $120k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $855
- Net assets
- $138k
What The Black Fives Foundation does
Mission
The Black Fives Foundation works to research, preserve, exhibit, and and promote the pre-1950 history of african americans in basketball to engage, teach, and inspire youth and others while honoring its pioneers and their descendants. We work with the pre-1950 history of african american basketball teams (the "black fives era") in order to: stimulate interest in history and the humanities, promote educational advancement, enrich appreciation of culture and the arts, encourage community-based youth programming, build fitness and health awareness, illuminate sports industry career opportunities, advocate for the recognition of the era's pioneers and their descendants, and, enable these efforts through innovative uses of technology as well as via traditional means.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
(1) lectures, presentations, educational programs for: (a) the big east conference (b) puma (c) heinz history center (d) charles aris (e) schomburg (f) museum of african american history (2) signed kk arnold to nil education & leadership ambassador agreement
$45,508 spent49% of program spendingManagement and general
$47,395 spent51% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $92,903.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $140k to $189k (+35%).
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.
8% of THE BLACK FIVES FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $400 → $16.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 THE BLACK FIVES 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
THE BLACK FIVES FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 92% · 2022 98% · 2023 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
THE BLACK FIVES FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE BLACK FIVES FOUNDATION's revenue fell 59% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE BLACK FIVES FOUNDATION?
- THE BLACK FIVES FOUNDATION (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $855 to it, the largest being Annie E Casey Foundation Inc ($800). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BLACK FIVES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $855 in grants to THE BLACK FIVES FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BLACK FIVES FOUNDATION?
- Annie E Casey Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BLACK FIVES FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 2 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