New York · Nonprofit
I CHALLENGE MYSELF INC
I CHALLENGE MYSELF INC (New York) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,452,621 to it, the largest being PINKERTON FOUNDATION ($255,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $502k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $156k
What I Challenge Myself Inc does
Mission
I challenge myself encourages and supports public school students to embrace challenges as opportunities to learn and grow, to develop healthy lifestyles and prepare for college and the workforce.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
I challenge myself's youth development programs provide youth opportunities to strengthen their bodies, minds, and spirits. Our three noncompetitive sports-based-youth development programs are cycling smarts, 4tofit, and youth cycling apprenticeship. In fiscal year 2024, I challenge myself fitness, cycling, college access, and career readiness programs served approximately 450 6th-12th grade students, ages 10-19, enrolled in 9 public schools in the south bronx, washington heights and harlem. Programs are offered free of charge to every student enrolled at participating schools regardless of athletic or academic ability. In school year 2023-2024, the organization ran the third year of the 4tofit program with 260 students across three middle schools in
$390,299 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $390,299.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $102k to $173k (+70%).
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: 2017 87% · 2018 19% · 2019 30% · 2020 47% · 2021 57% · 2022 46% · 2023 36% · 2024 18% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of I CHALLENGE MYSELF INC’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. 4 of the last 9 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
Quentin Ball
Executive director
Board chair
Alison Sher
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $155k → $158k.
8 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 I CHALLENGE MYSELF INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
I CHALLENGE MYSELF INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
58% 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 I CHALLENGE MYSELF INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 43% · 2019 71% · 2020 38% · 2021 25% · 2022 33% · 2023 19% — 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.
How long its funders stay
31% of I CHALLENGE MYSELF INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
80% of I CHALLENGE MYSELF INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $195k 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
I CHALLENGE MYSELF INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding I CHALLENGE MYSELF INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $800k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$800k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like I CHALLENGE MYSELF 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% 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 I CHALLENGE MYSELF INC: 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 I CHALLENGE MYSELF INC?
- I CHALLENGE MYSELF INC (New York) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,452,621 to it, the largest being PINKERTON FOUNDATION ($255,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does I CHALLENGE MYSELF INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,452,621 in grants to I CHALLENGE MYSELF INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of I CHALLENGE MYSELF INC?
- PINKERTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $255,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like I CHALLENGE MYSELF 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 31 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