Missouri · Nonprofit
Championship Greatness
Championship Greatness (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $717,500 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($641,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $222k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $718k
- Net assets
- $37k
What Championship Greatness does
Mission
Championship Greatness is a Community Development Non-Profit in Kansas City that helps promote wholeness in under-resourced neighborhoods by providing entrepreneurial leadership and mentorship opportunities that are facilitated through sports, fitness, and spiritual development p
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community Boxing and Fitness Program - A 52 week boxing program designed to serve 25 athletes in the inner city of Kansas City for competetive boxing matches.
$129,237 spent55% of program spendingSports Chaplaincy - A ministry mentorship program built to serve 40 professional athletes and coaches with a weekly bible study, a weekly chapel service and weekly one on one mentorship.
$40,000 spent17% of program spendingWeekly Mentoring discipleship Meetings - a 52 week mentorship program built to enrich the lives of 35 individuals and their families in the inner city of Kansas City
$35,000 spent15% of program spendingMarriage Enrichment Program - A 10 week marriage counseling program for 10 professional athletes and their spouses
$20,000 spent8% of program spendingOther Program Related Expenses
$11,681 spent5% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $235,918.
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 2020 to 2021, from $138k to $0 (−100%).
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: 2024 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Championship Greatness’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Carey Marcellus Casey
Executive Director
Board chair
Kevin Nickerson
President of the Board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $185k → $10k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 Championship Greatness’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
Championship Greatness leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 Championship Greatness.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 80% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
90% of Championship Greatness'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 $69k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $649k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Championship Greatness has grown faster than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Championship Greatness
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 Missouri
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 Championship Greatness: 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 Championship Greatness?
- Championship Greatness (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $717,500 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($641,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Championship Greatness have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $717,500 in grants to Championship Greatness, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Championship Greatness?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $641,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Championship Greatness find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 4 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