Florida · Nonprofit
Bigger Than Sports Corporation
Bigger Than Sports Corporation (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,000 to it, the largest being EM Lynn Foundation ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $179k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $101k
- Net assets
- $136k
What Bigger Than Sports Corporation does
Mission
BTS is a not-for-profit organization that empowers student-athletes from underserved communities to reach their full potential through educational guidance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Bigger Than Sports Corporation ran youth athletic mentorship programming throughout 2025 including basketball flag football and pickleball tournaments and a 5K wellness event serving student-athletes in underserved communities across multiple states. Through a youth-mentoring-youth model program staff and volunteer mentors provided educational resources mentorship and post-graduation planning support to participants connecting life skills learned through sports to long-term academic and career success.
$44,135 spentof which $500 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $44,135.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Ian Waite
Executive Director
Board chair
Aarif Khan
Board Chair
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 Bigger Than Sports Corporation’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.
How concentrated its funding is
Bigger Than Sports Corporation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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.
Where its funders are
99% of Bigger Than Sports Corporation's grant income comes from Florida funders.
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
Bigger Than Sports Corporation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Bigger Than Sports Corporation
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Bigger Than Sports Corporation?
- Bigger Than Sports Corporation (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,000 to it, the largest being EM Lynn Foundation ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bigger Than Sports Corporation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $101,000 in grants to Bigger Than Sports Corporation.
- Who is the largest funder of Bigger Than Sports Corporation?
- EM Lynn Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bigger Than Sports Corporation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 2 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