California · Nonprofit
A FIGHTING CHANCE
A FIGHTING CHANCE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being GOLDHIRSH FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $-1901
What A Fighting Chance does
Mission
To empower underserved and at-risk youth and young adults through fitness, mentorship, wellness, leadership development, and supportive programs that promote healthy lifestyles, personal development, and positive life outcomes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
A Fighting Chance provided fitness, wellness, mentorship, and supportive programming to underserved and at-risk youth and young adults, including individuals impacted by foster care, substance use, gang involvement, justice-system involvement, and other barriers. Services promoted physical wellness, discipline, confidence, positive decision-making, mentorship, and personal development through structured fitness and community-based activities. Approximately 200 youth and community members were served in 2025.
$50,171 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $50,171.
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 2024 to 2025, from $33k to $4k (−89%).
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.
86% of A FIGHTING CHANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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.
Chief executive
Amar Marwaha
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of A FIGHTING CHANCE’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.
Where its funders are
A FIGHTING CHANCE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
A FIGHTING CHANCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,011 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,011 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like A FIGHTING CHANCE
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 California
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for A FIGHTING CHANCE: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds A FIGHTING CHANCE?
- A FIGHTING CHANCE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being GOLDHIRSH FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does A FIGHTING CHANCE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to A FIGHTING CHANCE.
- Who is the largest funder of A FIGHTING CHANCE?
- GOLDHIRSH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A FIGHTING CHANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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