NFL Player Care Foundation

Analysis

NFL Player Care Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in New York, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending March 2023, NFL Player Care Foundation reported income of $5.2m and spending of $3.0m, leaving 44% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2019 to March 2023, income grew from $3.1m to $5.2m (+70%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 66%. Over the whole period it spent 71% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, NFL Player Care Foundation sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 90th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include CDS Family and Behavioral Health Services Inc ($5.2m), Dakota Medical Foundation ($5.3m) and Hope Association ($5.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending March 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $9.5m against liabilities of $86k, net assets of $9.4m.