North Carolina · Nonprofit
DURHAM SPORTS COMMISSION
DURHAM SPORTS COMMISSION (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being Durham Sports Club Scholarship Foundatio ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $491k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $407k
What Durham Sports Commission does
Mission
The Durham Sports Commission's mission is to create economic and social impact by leading the community's efforts to attract, support, and promote youth, amateur, collegiate, and professional sporting and recreational events.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Bid events: in 2024-2025, the Durham Sports Commission did not submit any new bids for events. The dsc hosted the naia national championship from 2021-2024, with the 2024 event generating $411,913 in economic impact. The dsc also hosted the acc baseball championship, which generated $8,717,472 in economic impact.
$121,415 spent$18,125 earned by the program29% of program spendingOwned events: 2024 marked the fourth annual champion durham classic, hosted at hillside high school. The tournament had seven girls teams and five guys teams competing, with 647 spectators in attendance. In april 2025, the dsc also hosted the third annual emerging women in sports leadership summit, collaborating with women leaders in sports. Hosted at the durham convention center, the event had 207 registered attendees and 30 speakers with 33 educational institutions and 56 different organizations represented.
$86,307 spent$32,233 earned by the program21% of program spendingGrants: in 2024-2025, the dsc gave 24 grants and supported a total of 48 events. These include large economic impact events like the russell blunt east coast invitational. In addition, the dsc gave out $2,000 in one team, one durham fund grants, providing opportunities to participate in youth sports to 10 individuals across two different organizations.
$166,325 spentof which $105,120 as grants40% of program spendingAll other program services
$42,863 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $416,910.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $229k to $385k (+68%).
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: 2022 59% · 2023 77% · 2024 77% · 2025 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of DURHAM SPORTS COMMISSION’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 6 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
Marcus Manning
Executive director
Board chair
Ingrid Wicker Mccree
Chairwoman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $15k → $13k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 DURHAM SPORTS COMMISSION’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
DURHAM SPORTS COMMISSION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
100% 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 DURHAM SPORTS COMMISSION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 67% · 2023 77% — diversifying over time.
“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
50% of DURHAM SPORTS COMMISSION'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 $30k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k 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
DURHAM SPORTS COMMISSION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DURHAM SPORTS COMMISSION
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Durham Convention & Visitors Bureau · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DURHAM SPORTS COMMISSION: 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 DURHAM SPORTS COMMISSION?
- DURHAM SPORTS COMMISSION (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being Durham Sports Club Scholarship Foundatio ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DURHAM SPORTS COMMISSION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $60,000 in grants to DURHAM SPORTS COMMISSION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DURHAM SPORTS COMMISSION?
- Durham Sports Club Scholarship Foundatio is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DURHAM SPORTS COMMISSION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2018–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing