North Carolina · Nonprofit
SPECIAL NEEDS SPORTS
SPECIAL NEEDS SPORTS (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $51,500 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HENDERSON COUNTY INC ($51,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $44k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $52k
- Net assets
- $58k
What Special Needs Sports does
Mission
To support athletic programs for children and adults with special needs
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
STAR Camp is a program that provides School Resource Officers with the opportunity to mentor fifth grade students during their summer break. Concepts taught during the STAR curriculum: Lesson 1: Good citizenship and what influences our behaviors Lesson 2: Good decision making; consequences; alcohol tobacco and e-cigarettes Lesson 3: School Nurse review of alcohol tobacco and e-cigarettes from a medical perspective Lesson 4: Marijuana inhalants and other illegal drugs; user statistics; ways to say No Lesson 5: Prescription drug awareness and safety Lesson 6: School Nurse review illegal drugs and the side effects of the misuse abuse of prescription medication from a medical perspective Lesson 7: Bullying. These concepts are reinforced in a fun-filled environment outside the classroom. Approximately 400 students attend STAR Camp at no cost to the children or their families. STAR Camp is funded by donations and grants and Special Needs Sports is one of the sponsors.
$5,000 spent33% of program spendingBaseball Program is open to any special needs person. There are NO restrictions of any kind. We supply everything needed to participate shirts hats balls bats gloves and even snacks and drinks. Currently we offer baseball mid-April until mid-June and early September until late October. We serve approximately 125 persons from seven surrounding counties around Hendersonville NC. 14-15 volunteers manage activities.
$4,862 spent32% of program spendingBasketball Program is open to any special needs person. There are NO restrictions of any kind. We supply everything needed to participate. Currently we offer basketball January through March serving approximately 30 persons from seven surrounding counties around Hendersonville NC. 14-15 volunteers manage activities.
$2,728 spent18% of program spendingSpecial Needs Sports also conducts a year-round martial arts program and fosters development of similar activities for persons with special needs locally and in other areas.
$2,382 spent16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $14,972.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SPECIAL NEEDS 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.
Where its funders are
100% of SPECIAL NEEDS SPORTS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k 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
SPECIAL NEEDS SPORTS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPECIAL NEEDS 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 SPECIAL NEEDS SPORTS?
- SPECIAL NEEDS SPORTS (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $51,500 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HENDERSON COUNTY INC ($51,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SPECIAL NEEDS SPORTS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $51,500 in grants to SPECIAL NEEDS SPORTS.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL NEEDS SPORTS?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HENDERSON COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $51,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL NEEDS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 1 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