Indiana · Nonprofit
PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY EDUCATIONAL SERIES INC
PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY EDUCATIONAL SERIES INC (Indiana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $206,916 to it, the largest being Memorial Hospital of South Bend Inc ($97,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $565k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $207k
- Net assets
- $586k
What Play Like a Champion Today Educational Series Inc does
Mission
Play like a champion provides leadership in a national effort to promote an inclusive, developmentally oriented youth sports culture for all children. It does this in two ways. It partners with economically disadvantaged communities lacking infrastructure and funding by providing project management and organizational development consulting to build community youth sports organizations to sustain youth sports programming. Secondly, it educates sports leaders, coaches, parents and administrators through its train the trainer model.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Coach and parent training: play like a champion trained 6,040 coaches and 8,432 parents during fye 2025. The increase is due to partner growth and virtual training workshops. The organization is expanding its project management and organizational development work under the banner of "a team for every child", supporting socio-economically challenged neighborhoods that are facing declining funding for their programs. Play like a champion has projects in chicago and south bend, indiana. The annual conference continues to bring partners together across the country to provide continuing education and reaffirm our shared values and commitment.
$419,029 spent$372,758 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $419,029.
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 $265k to $386k (+46%).
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 28% · 2022 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY EDUCATIONAL SERIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $13k → $27k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY EDUCATIONAL SERIES 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
PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY EDUCATIONAL SERIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY EDUCATIONAL SERIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 60% · 2020 66% · 2021 79% · 2022 76% · 2023 91% — growing more concentrated.
“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
75% of PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY EDUCATIONAL SERIES INC'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
PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY EDUCATIONAL SERIES INC draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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
PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY EDUCATIONAL SERIES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,734 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,734 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY EDUCATIONAL SERIES 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% 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 PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY EDUCATIONAL SERIES 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 PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY EDUCATIONAL SERIES INC?
- PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY EDUCATIONAL SERIES INC (Indiana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $206,916 to it, the largest being Memorial Hospital of South Bend Inc ($97,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY EDUCATIONAL SERIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $206,916 in grants to PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY EDUCATIONAL SERIES INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY EDUCATIONAL SERIES INC?
- Memorial Hospital of South Bend Inc is the largest funder on record, with $97,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY EDUCATIONAL SERIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing