Florida · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR SPORT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
INSTITUTE FOR SPORT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $938,917 to it, the largest being Major League Baseball Charities Inc ($575,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $939k
- Net assets
- $459k
What Institute for Sport and Social Justice does
Mission
Use the power of sport to effect positive social change. We educate and empower individuals and orgznizations by inspiring values-based thinking leading to actions that promote social responsibility and equality.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization discontinued the following programs during the year: the Community Outreach Services Program, Hope for Stanley, Shut-Out Trafficking, National Student-Athlete Day, and other related student-athlete outreach programs.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Huddle-Up (HU) is a leadership-infused educational program that utilizes active learning strategies to maximize interactive dialogue and enhance participant learning. HU is subdivided in three key areas: 1. HU to Prevent Gender Based Violence focuses on preventing all forms of men's violence against women, and addresses the full continuum of abusive behaviors and empowering participants to understand how misogynistic language, sexual harassment, gendered bullying, sexual assault, rape and domestic violence are linked together. It is a multi-racial mixed gender program that introduces and develops the bystander approach to violence prevention. 2. HU for Diversity Equity and Inclusion focuses on building community and building trust, embracing vulnerability as a leadership skill, discusses the power of language, the power of symbolism, unconscious bias and allyship, equality vs equity and empowers participants to understand how privilege, bias, discrimination and stereotypes can create an unwelcome environment. This program seeks to engage, empower, and equip organizations to rise to the social justice moment, inspiring leadership, increasing trust, and elevating the culture of the…
$1,191,585 spentof which $440,887 as grants$401,192 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,191,585.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.1M to $494k (−54%).
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: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of INSTITUTE FOR SPORT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Dr Jeff O'Brien
CEO-secretary & treasurer
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 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $12k → $115k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 INSTITUTE FOR SPORT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE’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
INSTITUTE FOR SPORT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
70% 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 INSTITUTE FOR SPORT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 62% · 2019 62% · 2020 50% · 2021 82% · 2022 75% · 2023 87% — 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
25% of INSTITUTE FOR SPORT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
INSTITUTE FOR SPORT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k 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
INSTITUTE FOR SPORT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like INSTITUTE FOR SPORT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE FOR SPORT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: 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 INSTITUTE FOR SPORT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE?
- INSTITUTE FOR SPORT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $938,917 to it, the largest being Major League Baseball Charities Inc ($575,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR SPORT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $938,917 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR SPORT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR SPORT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE?
- Major League Baseball Charities Inc is the largest funder on record, with $575,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR SPORT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 9 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