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A donation arrives
We collect donations, and that is the whole job. Every dollar you give turns into shoes for a kid. There is nothing else to buy.
Hoop Therapy is one person in Washington state who collects donations, buys shoes, and puts them in kids' hands himself. That is the entire operation. Play is therapy, and every kid deserves the equipment for it.
Give a pairWe collect donations, and that is the whole job. Every dollar you give turns into shoes for a kid. There is nothing else to buy.
The founder watches for sales and buys actual shoes, in the sizes real kids wear, across Washington state.
Every pair is delivered by hand. The founder drives out and puts the shoes in the kid's hands himself.
The founder keeps nothing and covers operating costs from his own pocket. Donated money exists for one purpose: shoes on kids' feet.
No paid staff · No office · No cut
Your gift becomes a pair of shoes and a moment on a doorstep.
Checkout runs on Stripe. Your card details go to Stripe, never to this page, and a receipt lands in your email the moment your gift goes through.
Gifts are not tax deductible. You are giving so a kid gets new shoes, not for a write off.
Donny founded Hoop Therapy on a simple belief: physical activity is therapy. A game gives kids an outlet, and a way through pressure that talk alone can't always reach. Basketball came first. The mission has room for any game a kid can lose themselves in.
He delivers every pair personally because the delivery is part of the gift: proof that a stranger cared enough to come in person.
Yes. Hoop Therapy is a nonprofit in Washington state run by one person. He is named just above, and he answers for every dollar.
To shoes. Donations sit in one account until they become a pair in a kid's size. The founder pays the running costs himself, so nothing comes off the top.
Yes. Reply to the receipt Stripe emails you and your gift comes back, every cent, no questions asked.
Because the operation is this small. One person, one promise, no staff and no office. A bigger site would be dressing.