Michigan · Nonprofit
PLAY RIGHT SPORTS ACADEMY INC
PLAY RIGHT SPORTS ACADEMY INC (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $351,430 to it, the largest being The Serra Foundation ($170,940). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $378k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $351k
- Net assets
- $360k
What Play Right Sports Academy Inc does
Mission
The organization provides an environment in which youth may learn and appreciate the core values of good citizens including but not limited to, honesty, integrity, sportsmanship, respect, confidence, responsibility, perseverance, courtesy, and judgment, through the instruction and participation in the game of basketball and other sporting activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community programs: play right open gym provides daily exercise for youths participating in various sports activities, such as basketball, volleyball, tennis, and golf. Servicing between 25 to 30 youths daily during the week and between 75 to 90 youths on the weekends. The basketball activities program organizes youth basketball teams that participate in tournaments or leagues. This services around 30 to 45 boys in the 7th to 8th grade in the albion, jackson, and battle creek area. For boys in 9th to 12th grade, it also services for between 30 to 45. The academic support program provides a broad range of academic tutoring on various subjects hoping to enhance their academic performance in school. This program provides academic help starting from the 3rd grade all the way through the 12th grade, helping between 20 to 30 students weekly. The tee ball program teaches youths the fundamentals of the sport. This progams provides its services to around 30 to 50 youths in the albion area.
$20,139 spent$2,906 earned by the program18% of program spendingCommunity service programs our thansgiving turkey giveaway services over 200 families in albion with a turkey for the holiday. Our christmas toy giveaway provides over 400 youth in the albion and jackson area with toys and gifts for the holiday.
$13,519 spent$8,500 earned by the program12% of program spendingGeneral operating expenses
$80,967 spent71% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $114,625.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $170k to $423k (+149%).
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: 2024 58% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of PLAY RIGHT SPORTS ACADEMY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Michael E Williams
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $25k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 RIGHT SPORTS ACADEMY 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 RIGHT SPORTS ACADEMY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 43% · 2021 100% · 2022 49% · 2023 40% — 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
50% of PLAY RIGHT SPORTS ACADEMY INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 40% 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
83% of PLAY RIGHT SPORTS ACADEMY INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k 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.
Against its field
PLAY RIGHT SPORTS ACADEMY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PLAY RIGHT SPORTS ACADEMY 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PLAY RIGHT SPORTS ACADEMY INC?
- PLAY RIGHT SPORTS ACADEMY INC (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $351,430 to it, the largest being The Serra Foundation ($170,940). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PLAY RIGHT SPORTS ACADEMY INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $351,430 in grants to PLAY RIGHT SPORTS ACADEMY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PLAY RIGHT SPORTS ACADEMY INC?
- The Serra Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $170,940 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PLAY RIGHT SPORTS ACADEMY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 10 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