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CHALLENGER ATHLETICS INC

CHALLENGER ATHLETICS INC (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,860 to it, the largest being THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST ($100,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$175k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$170k
Net assets
$248k
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Challenger Athletics Inc does

Mission

To promote and encourage children with cognitive & physical disabilities to participate in individual and organized team sports.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Lacrosse program

    $2,937 spent
    13% of program spending
  2. Tennis program

  3. Sports camp program

  4. Surfing program

    $10,295 spent
    46% of program spending
  5. Flag football program

    $904 spent
    4% of program spending
  6. Basketball program

    $817 spent
    4% of program spending
  7. Yoga program

    $1,400 spent
    6% of program spending
  8. Soccer program

  9. Fishing program

    $1,855 spent
    8% of program spending
  10. Bowling program

    $3,633 spent
    16% of program spending
  11. Baseball program

    $333 spent
    2% of program spending

The 11 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $22,174.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($109k) Expenses 100 ($38k) Net assets 100 ($110k)2018 Revenue 122 ($133k) Expenses 206 ($79k) Net assets 149 ($165k)2019 Revenue 142 ($155k) Expenses 265 ($102k) Net assets 198 ($218k)2020 Revenue 71 ($78k) Expenses 202 ($77k) Net assets 198 ($218k)2021 Revenue 91 ($99k) Expenses 250 ($96k) Net assets 200 ($221k)2022 Revenue 126 ($137k) Expenses 342 ($131k) Net assets 206 ($227k)2023 Revenue 149 ($162k) Expenses 396 ($152k) Net assets 216 ($238k)2024 Revenue 160 ($175k) Expenses 431 ($165k) Net assets 224 ($248k)
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Revenue (160)Expenses (431)Net assets (224)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $110k to $167k (+52%).

$110k
$167k
$218k
$220k
$222k
$228k
$238k
$248k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of CHALLENGER ATHLETICS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$71k
’17
$54k
’18
$54k
’19
$140
’20
$3k
’21
$6k
’22
$10k
’23
$10k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $58k.

5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 CHALLENGER ATHLETICS INC’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

CHALLENGER ATHLETICS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

87% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHALLENGER ATHLETICS INC.

59%
largest funder
79%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 75% · 2020 51% · 2021 70% · 2022 100% · 2023 86% — 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

33% of CHALLENGER ATHLETICS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

87% of CHALLENGER ATHLETICS INC'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. Of the $22k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from New York funders.

NY
NJ
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $148k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHALLENGER ATHLETICS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like CHALLENGER ATHLETICS INC

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 New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHALLENGER ATHLETICS INC?
CHALLENGER ATHLETICS INC (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,860 to it, the largest being THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST ($100,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHALLENGER ATHLETICS INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $169,860 in grants to CHALLENGER ATHLETICS INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHALLENGER ATHLETICS INC?
THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST 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 CHALLENGER ATHLETICS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 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