California · Nonprofit
Affirmative Athletics
Affirmative Athletics (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($30). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $313k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $30
- Net assets
- $55k
What Affirmative Athletics does
Mission
To empower at-promise justice-involved youth through reading journal writing and organized sports leagues. We advance youth development through social and emotional learning building interpersonal relationships and facilitating positive community engagement with the goal of reducing young peoples involvement with the criminal justice system.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Affirmative Athletics scaled its programming significantly in 2025 establishing ongoing leagues in two of the countys residential youth probation camps.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Seasonal year-round journal writing-team building workshops along with organized sports; Spring Flag Football Summer Futbol Soccer and Fall Basketball leagues that help transform and build character of Los Angeles incarcerated at-promise youth.
$221,903 spent$240,871 earned by the program100% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $221,903.
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.
Board chair
Khari Streeter
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $11 → $5.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Affirmative Athletics’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
100% of Affirmative Athletics'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30 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
Affirmative Athletics runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 Affirmative Athletics: 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 Affirmative Athletics?
- Affirmative Athletics (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($30). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Affirmative Athletics have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $30 in grants to Affirmative Athletics, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Affirmative Athletics?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Affirmative Athletics 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing