Tennessee · Nonprofit
Memphis Bears Inc Police Activities League
Memphis Bears Inc Police Activities League (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $406,302 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF POLICE ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES LEAGUES INC ($300,302). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $406k
- Net assets
- $161k
What Memphis Bears Inc Police Activities League does
Mission
Our mission is to empower, enhance, & enrich youth through education, leadership, and sports programs, in a fun, safe & exciting atmosphere.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Memphis Bears, Inc., (MBI) is a organization that offers eight, (8) year-round sports (boys baseball, boys basketball, football, track/field and girls basketball, cheerleading/majorette, softball, to youth ranging between the ages of 6 and 14.
$0 spent0% of program spendingThe Sheriffs & Police Activities League of Memphis & Shelby County (Memphis Shelby PAL) is a non-profit youth mentoring organization devoted to preventing crime, building character and promoting success for children 5-18. We are an affiliate of the National Police Activities League (NPAL) working in partnership with Shelby County Schools, the City of Memphis, the Shelby CountySheriffs Department and the Memphis Police Department.
$79,089 spent$193,442 earned by the program100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $79,089.
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 2020 to 2021, from $229k to $61k (−73%).
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: 2018 48% · 2021 58% · 2022 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of Memphis Bears Inc Police Activities League’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Craig Littles
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Brenda Shotwell
Commettee Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $31k → $103k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 Memphis Bears Inc Police Activities League’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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
Memphis Bears Inc Police Activities League leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 Memphis Bears Inc Police Activities League.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 73% · 2021 57% · 2022 56% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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
Memphis Bears Inc Police Activities League draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $102k 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
Memphis Bears Inc Police Activities League has grown faster than three-quarters of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Memphis Bears Inc Police Activities League
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
35% 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 Memphis Bears Inc Police Activities League: 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 Memphis Bears Inc Police Activities League?
- Memphis Bears Inc Police Activities League (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $406,302 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF POLICE ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES LEAGUES INC ($300,302). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Memphis Bears Inc Police Activities League have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $406,302 in grants to Memphis Bears Inc Police Activities League, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Memphis Bears Inc Police Activities League?
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF POLICE ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES LEAGUES INC is the largest funder on record, with $300,302 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Memphis Bears Inc Police Activities League find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 5 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