North Carolina · Nonprofit
REAL SPORTS
REAL SPORTS (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being THE PFIZER FOUNDATION INC ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $162k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $83k
What Real Sports does
Mission
The purpose of REAL Sports is to minister to the whole person, radically equipping athletes for life. We seek to do this by developing individuals physically, emotionally, socially, relationally, and spiritually. It is the mission of REAL Sports to provide a positive, competitive, faith-based sports culture for players, parents, spectators, and coaches driven by a desire to honor Jesus Christ in and through sports.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The heart of REAL Sports is to develop the whole person through a Christ-centered sports culture and to prepare athletes to achieve their fullest potential for God in all areas, including the sports they love. Our program services, which include open gyms, clinics, camps, and competitive club sports, seek to develop individuals through sport in each of these 5 distinct areas: physically, emotionally, socially, relationally, and spiritually. Our program services are conducted by coaches, trainers, and other volunteers. We conduct our program services at various athletic venues, some of which we are able to use at no charge and others for which we must pay rental fees. The percentage of time allocated to our program services was substantial, as activities took place multiple times each week for at least 6 months out of the year, and at least monthly for the other 6 months, with many of those months having multiple day activities. The program services offered by REAL Sports are funded by participation fees and donations. The exempt purpose for which REAL Sports is organized is to establish, maintain, promote, and operate a faith-based sports ministry that is religious, charitable,…
$101,207 spent98% of program spendingReal Sports seeks to "love our neighbors" through serving our community. Sports offer a great platform for us to do this. We offered free clinics and trainings and partnered with other Christian sports entities, such as Upwards and Fellowship of Christian Athletes to provide resources and support for our community members. We also participate in other community outreach events as the Lord leads and opportunities arise. For example, in this fiscal year, we have collected and purchased back-to-school materials to donate to local schools, sponsored Christmas Angels through local schools, and served alongside church ministries in ministering to various needs in the community. Our community outreach endeavors are conducted by volunteers and take place in various sectors of the community, including schools, churches, and neighborhoods. The percentage of time allocated to our community outreach events varies based on need and opportunity. Community outreach events offered by REAL Sports are funded by donations. The exempt purpose for which REAL Sports is organized is to establish, maintain, promote, and operate a faith-based sports ministry that is religious, charitable, and educational.…
$1,848 spent2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $103,055.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $31k to $83k (+170%).
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.
23% of REAL SPORTS’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. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of REAL SPORTS’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
REAL SPORTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
REAL SPORTS draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
REAL SPORTS 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 REAL SPORTS
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REAL SPORTS: 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 REAL SPORTS?
- REAL SPORTS (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being THE PFIZER FOUNDATION INC ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REAL SPORTS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $5,000 in grants to REAL SPORTS.
- Who is the largest funder of REAL SPORTS?
- THE PFIZER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REAL SPORTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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