Texas · Nonprofit
THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION & COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INC
THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION & COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INC (Texas) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,900,255 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($341,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
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.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared funders
- New York Jets Foundation Incportfolio match
- Stai Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $198k → $349k.
12 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $219k from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Collegiate Athletic Association). These are real filings, and they are not money THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION & COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION & COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 28 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
THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION & COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
92% 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 THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION & COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 29% · 2019 37% · 2020 22% · 2021 31% · 2022 22% · 2023 43% — 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
32% of THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION & COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
64% of THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION & COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INC'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 $681k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
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 28 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 66 organizations that share your funders
- New York Jets Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stai Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Collinson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Orange Bowl Committee Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gene & Jerry Jones Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Texas Rangers Baseball Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southern Methodist Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tull Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared fundersDC · backs 66 organizations that share your funders
- Major League Baseball Youth Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Viola Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION & COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INC
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION & COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION & COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INC?
- THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION & COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INC (Texas) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,900,255 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($341,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION & COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,900,255 in grants to THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION & COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION & COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INC?
- Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $341,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION & COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 28funders 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