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SPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES

SPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES (North Carolina) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,067,827 to it, the largest being NRA FOUNDATION INC ($1,275,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$5.4M
Funders on record
49
Grants received
$3.1M
Net assets
$986k
27/49 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Speedway Children's Charities does

Mission

To raise funds and provide grants to non-profit organizations that meet the direct needs of children with medical, educational, or social challenges.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Funds were raised throughout the year through various events, including auctions, dinners, golf outings, drawings, and more. The funds raised from these events enabled Speedway Children's Charities to distribute grants to 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations that aligned with our exempt purpose.during the fiscal year ending december 31, 2024, Speedway Children's Charities distributed over $4 million to more than 443 children's programs, supporting an estimated 333,340 children. Since 1982, the organization has distributed over $72 million in grants, helping children in need acquire the tools to build a better, brighter, and healthier future.

    $4,105,933 spentof which $4,094,141 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,105,933.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($4.3M) Expenses 100 ($4.1M) Net assets 100 ($3.2M)2020 Revenue 40 ($1.8M) Expenses 49 ($2.0M) Net assets 9 ($272k)2021 Revenue 73 ($3.2M) Expenses 73 ($3.0M) Net assets 15 ($469k)2022 Revenue 112 ($4.9M) Expenses 99 ($4.0M) Net assets 40 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 127 ($5.5M) Expenses 141 ($5.8M) Net assets 32 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 124 ($5.4M) Expenses 132 ($5.4M) Net assets 31 ($986k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (124)Expenses (132)Net assets (31)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $3.4M to $416k (−88%).

$3.4M
$416k
$809k
$1.5M
$1.2M
$1.2M
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

85% of SPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,053 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$246k
’19
−$248k
’20
$182k
’21
$813k
’22
−$267k
’23
−$30k
’24
1.2
months of
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

Lisa Starnes

Executive director (thru 2/28/24)

Board chair

Marcus Smith

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201920202021202220232024
Listed191719141514
Joined·+1+2+4+2+0
No longer listed·30911
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 16 funders, grant income fell $469k → $369k.

10 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 SPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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

SPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

76% 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 SPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES.

42%
largest funder
59%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 73% · 2019 82% · 2020 27% · 2021 43% · 2022 47% · 2023 27% — 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

27% of SPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

SPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 12 states in all.

WA
IL
NY
NV
IN
CA
MO
VA
TN
NC
GA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $228k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES's revenue grew 24% between 2019 and 2024.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like SPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 4%Fundraising 21%

Governance

11
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

63%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 36 states

AK
ME
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
MS
AL
GA
FL

Part of a family of 18 related entities

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  • Chartown · corp_trust
  • Dallas Motor Speedway Inc · corp_trust
  • Dover Motorsports LLC · corp_trust
  • Inex Corporation · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds SPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES?
SPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES (North Carolina) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,067,827 to it, the largest being NRA FOUNDATION INC ($1,275,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES have?
IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $3,067,827 in grants to SPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES?
NRA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,275,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 49 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