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In Sports Foundation

In Sports Foundation (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,700 to it, the largest being National Association of Sports Commissions ($21,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$269k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$82k
Net assets
$197k
2/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What In Sports Foundation does

Mission

As a nonprofit organization our mission and purpose at the InSports Foundation is to help more kids participate in sports. To accomplish this objective InSports provides financial assistance and sporting opportunities for kids to get in the game enabling them to become active confident and successful team leaders in their communities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide athletic scholarships to individuals and teams

    $18,500 spent
    7% of program spending
  2. Fund elementary summer school athletic programs for kids with financial needs.

    $30,086 spent
    11% of program spending
  3. Fund other organizations programs that provide athletic programs for children of financial needs

    $152,094 spent
    55% of program spending
  4. Fund teams consisting of children with financial needs to participate in youth athletic programs and leagues.

    $75,373 spent
    27% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $276,053.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($123k) Expenses 100 ($44k) Net assets 100 ($262k)2022 Revenue 106 ($131k) Expenses 258 ($114k) Net assets 107 ($280k)2023 Revenue 233 ($286k) Expenses 552 ($244k) Net assets 123 ($322k)2024 Revenue 445 ($547k) Expenses 1287 ($567k) Net assets 115 ($301k)2025 Revenue 219 ($269k) Expenses 849 ($374k) Net assets 75 ($197k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (219)Expenses (849)Net assets (75)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 2024 to 2025, from $321k to $221k (−31%).

$265k
$288k
$329k
$321k
$221k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

25% of In Sports Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$79k
’21
$17k
’22
$42k
’23
−$20k
’24
−$105k
’25
4.0
months of
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.

202320242025
Listed111
Joined···
No longer listed···
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $21k → $20k.

2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 In Sports Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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

In Sports Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

59% 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 In Sports Foundation.

26%
largest funder
62%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 57% · 2023 50% — 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

0% of In Sports Foundation's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 20% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

In Sports Foundation draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states in all.

MN
NY
OH

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

’18
’20
’21
’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

In Sports Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−39% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like In Sports Foundation

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 13%Fundraising 13%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

59%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for In Sports Foundation: 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 In Sports Foundation?
In Sports Foundation (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,700 to it, the largest being National Association of Sports Commissions ($21,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does In Sports Foundation have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $81,700 in grants to In Sports Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of In Sports Foundation?
National Association of Sports Commissions is the largest funder on record, with $21,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like In Sports Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 10 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