Maryland · Nonprofit
ATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES
ATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES (Maryland) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,224,889 to it, the largest being FRANK S NICOLL JR AND JOANNE M NICOLL FOUNDATION INC ($1,096,564). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $929k
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Athletes Serving Athletes does
Mission
Athletes Serving Athletes elevates the quality of life for individuals with limited mobility by empowering them to train for and participate in mainstream running events.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, asa served 84 individuals with disabilities connecting them with 336 volunteer runners. On average each asa athlete with a disability trained 18 times and participated in 6 main stream races. Asa also hosted the 2 asa runfests in maryland and virginia and 2 asa bashes in baltimore and rockville. Asa offers it's program free of charge to the individuals with disabilities served.
$660,080 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $660,080.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $886k to $2.0M (+121%).
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% · 2022 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of ATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $11k → $1.3M.
8 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 ATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
ATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 37% · 2019 25% · 2020 49% · 2021 39% · 2022 56% · 2023 82% — growing more concentrated.
“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
56% of ATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
ATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $218k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states 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
ATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 22 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 442 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like ATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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 ATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES: 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 ATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES?
- ATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES (Maryland) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,224,889 to it, the largest being FRANK S NICOLL JR AND JOANNE M NICOLL FOUNDATION INC ($1,096,564). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $2,224,889 in grants to ATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES?
- FRANK S NICOLL JR AND JOANNE M NICOLL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,096,564 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2020–2026), and the filings of 43 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