California · Nonprofit
SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC
SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC (California) receives grants from 149 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,595,198 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($12,442,353). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.8M
- Funders on record
- 149
- Grants received
- $25M
- Net assets
- $33M
What Special Olympics Southern California Inc does
Mission
The mission of special olympics southern california is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other special olympics athletes and the community. Our vision is to promote acceptance, inclusion, and well-being for people with intellectual disabilities through sports.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Sports and health programs:special olympics southern california provides year-round sports training and competitions for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Athletes have opportunities to compete in 12 sports at the local and southern california level annually and to compete nationally or internationally during years in which usa games or world games are taking place. Individuals can participate as young as two years old and throughout their lifetimes. Through the young athletes program, athletes aged 2-7 develop their motor, social, and cognitive skills through foundational sports play.special olympics is the world's largest public health organization for people with intellectual disabilities. The healthy athletes program provides access to free health services for a population with significant, unmet health needs. At events throughout southern california, the organization offers athletes free access to medical teams across primary care, optometry, podiatry, mental health, and more. Throughout the year, special olympics southern california offers fit 5, which is a fitness program designed to help athletes become the best they can be by creating healthy…
$8,297,853 spent80% of program spendingUnified champion schools:special olympics southern california's unified champion schools (ucs) is shaping a generation of young people who will lead us into a future of inclusion. The program spreads acceptance, inclusion, and an active lifestyle for students with and without intellectual disabilities. Ninety-one percent of general education students who participated in special olympics programs reported standing up for their teammates with intellectual disabilities, and 94% of ucs liaisons reported less bullying.in 2024, we had more than 150 schools commit to creating a more inclusive and accepting environment for all students, particularly those with intellectual disabilities. This includes three components:1. Unified sports is a program in which people with intellectual disabilities (athletes) and those without (partners) train and compete together on sports teams. It is inspired by a simple principle: playing together is a quick path to friendship and understanding.2. Inclusive youth leadership - students with and without intellectual disabilities work together to lead and plan advocacy, awareness, and other inclusive activities throughout the school year.3. Whole school…
$1,244,894 spentof which $284,114 as grants12% of program spendingOther program activities: leadership, awareness, and community engagement:special olympics southern california's other program costs include broadening opportunities for leadership, education, awareness, and community engagement. Athlete and youth leadership programs: special olympics southern california provides athletes with training to develop their leadership skills and use their voices and abilities to inspire others, influence change, and create inclusive communities. Athletes can become coaches, officials, team captains, spokespeople, board of directors members, and committee members. Athletes help guide the direction of the movement and are advocates of acceptance and inclusion for all. In 2024, they trained more athlete leaders than they have in the past eight years, and they created four new athlete leadership councils. Public education and awareness: the organization works to advocate and educate to spread the message about the importance of inclusion and the ways in which it benefits the lives of everyone and our world. With the goal of better educating the public on our programs and mission, the organization promotes its mission and programs through a variety of…
$817,204 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,359,951.
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 $22M to $38M (+70%).
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: 2017 3% · 2018 10% · 2019 26% · 2020 0% · 2021 27% · 2022 61% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Kelly Pond
President & CEO
Board chair
Richard Villa
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 46 funders to 48 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $2.9M.
30 of 149 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $360k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Frank Nigro Columbian Foundation Supporting People With Intellectual Disabi). These are real filings, and they are not money SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 149 funders by total. 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 70% · 2019 58% · 2020 56% · 2021 54% · 2022 36% · 2023 56% — 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
33% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC (California) receives grants from 149 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,595,198 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($12,442,353). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 149 organizations giving $24,595,198 in grants to SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC, 88 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,442,353 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 149 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