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IVY LEAGUE YOUTH SPORTS ACADEMY

IVY LEAGUE YOUTH SPORTS ACADEMY (Nebraska) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $282,005 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($200,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$124k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$282k
Net assets
$103k
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 57%
01What it does

What Ivy League Youth Sports Academy does

Mission

Ivy League Youth Sports Academy will promote healthy competition, sports training and skill development, mentorship, and nutritional empowerment. Student-athletes will be empowered to be active participants in their own athletic, academic and personal success. Ilysa will create a pipeline for high school sports in teh omaha metro area.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide youth athletes the opportunity to participate closely with coaching staff on drills that will greatly improve their skill-set, allowing them to be "court ready" for opportunities at the next level.

    $113,676 spent$14,059 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $113,676.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($650k) Expenses 100 ($305k) Net assets 100 ($345k)2021 Revenue 99 ($645k) Expenses 91 ($278k) Net assets 206 ($712k)2022 Revenue 5 ($34k) Expenses 113 ($344k) Net assets 116 ($402k)2023 Revenue 18 ($116k) Expenses 97 ($294k) Net assets 65 ($224k)2024 Revenue 32 ($211k) Expenses 81 ($248k) Net assets 54 ($186k)2025 Revenue 19 ($124k) Expenses 68 ($208k) Net assets 30 ($103k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (19)Expenses (68)Net assets (30)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 2020 to 2021, from $345k to $712k (+106%).

$345k
$712k
$409k
$228k
$189k
$104k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

80% of IVY LEAGUE YOUTH SPORTS ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$345k
’20
$367k
’21
−$311k
’22
−$178k
’23
−$37k
’24
−$84k
’25
6.0
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.

Chief executive

Maurtice Ivy

CEO

Board chair

Ayanna Boykins

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed798855
Joined·+2+3+0+2+0
No longer listed·04050
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $66k.

1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 IVY LEAGUE YOUTH SPORTS ACADEMY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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

IVY LEAGUE YOUTH SPORTS ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

71%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 76% — 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

96% of IVY LEAGUE YOUTH SPORTS ACADEMY's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.

NE
FL

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

’22
’23
Nebraska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

IVY LEAGUE YOUTH SPORTS ACADEMY is better cushioned than half of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−67% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−28% · bottom quartile

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

Organizations like IVY LEAGUE YOUTH SPORTS ACADEMY

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

55% of spending goes to programs.

Program 55%Management 33%Fundraising 13%

Governance

9
board members
89%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

NE

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IVY LEAGUE YOUTH SPORTS ACADEMY: 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 IVY LEAGUE YOUTH SPORTS ACADEMY?
IVY LEAGUE YOUTH SPORTS ACADEMY (Nebraska) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $282,005 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($200,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does IVY LEAGUE YOUTH SPORTS ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $282,005 in grants to IVY LEAGUE YOUTH SPORTS ACADEMY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of IVY LEAGUE YOUTH SPORTS ACADEMY?
THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like IVY LEAGUE YOUTH SPORTS ACADEMY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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