Tennessee · Nonprofit
NASHVILLE YOUTH SPORTS CLUB INC
NASHVILLE YOUTH SPORTS CLUB INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,337 to it, the largest being Upward Unlimited Foundation ($106,708). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $165k
- Net assets
- $466k
What Nashville Youth Sports Club Inc does
Mission
Nashville youth sports club, inc (dba stars basketball club) is an organization that exists to promote the discovery of jesus christ through sports. The mission of stars basketball is: planting seeds for christ through basketball. We bring christian leaders, athletes, and the community they serve together through the universal language of sports while promoting growth in mind, body, and soul. As a non-denominational christian sports ministry, we offer programs designed to give athletes a place to strive for higher performance and excellence. We cultivate valuable resources to aid in planning and executing first class, organized, and detailed sports training and offerings. The 360 progression, a uniquely designed total sports experience that adapts and expands as players develop and grow in their personal journey, is primarily used to accomplish our mission. The 360 progression includes comprehensive training and instruction that increases in intensity as they improve and enriches their
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Nashville youth sports club (dba stars basketball club)provides year-round basketball opportunities for 1st-12th grade athletes, boys & girls, through team play, programming (camps and clinics), tournaments, and leagues, but the club places a high priority on providing a more than experience. This impact is seen both on and off the court. Stars has the desire to impact athletes: mentally, athletically, spiritually, and socially.
$1,147,546 spent$1,668,767 earned by the program96% of program spendingThe stars shooting lab, which offers sessions year around. We purchased multiple dr. Dish ct shooting machines to offer specialized training for athletes to experience maximized shot repetitions with instant instruction and feedback. The stars shooting lab now features four dr. Dish ct shooting machines. Coaching staff is on-site to provide coaching, feedback, and encouragement. This program is offered to elementary age athletes through college level athletes. This program allowed elite athletes to book sessions to improve their shooting during the off season, weekends, and in their free time. We incorporate scripture connected to sports through a stars lab newsletter, and also through the lab core teaching points: foundation, balance, and finish. Another shooting lab product, lab plus(+), includes time on the shooting machines, speed/agility training, and time on a vertimax machine. The lab plus(+) product is a small-group workout (no more than five athletes), and targets upper-elementary age athletes through high school athletes. 30 minute sessions will be offered year-round.
$43,934 spent$117,300 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,191,480.
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 2021 to 2022, from $576k to $1.3M (+133%).
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: 2020 4% · 2021 9% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of NASHVILLE YOUTH SPORTS CLUB INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $90k → $500.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 NASHVILLE YOUTH SPORTS CLUB INC’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
NASHVILLE YOUTH SPORTS CLUB INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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
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 NASHVILLE YOUTH SPORTS CLUB INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 82% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
NASHVILLE YOUTH SPORTS CLUB INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
NASHVILLE YOUTH SPORTS CLUB INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NASHVILLE YOUTH SPORTS CLUB 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 NASHVILLE YOUTH SPORTS CLUB 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 NASHVILLE YOUTH SPORTS CLUB INC?
- NASHVILLE YOUTH SPORTS CLUB INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,337 to it, the largest being Upward Unlimited Foundation ($106,708). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NASHVILLE YOUTH SPORTS CLUB INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $165,337 in grants to NASHVILLE YOUTH SPORTS CLUB INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NASHVILLE YOUTH SPORTS CLUB INC?
- Upward Unlimited Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $106,708 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NASHVILLE YOUTH SPORTS CLUB INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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