Tennessee · Nonprofit
SPORTS ARTS & RECREATION OF CHATTANOOGA
SPORTS ARTS & RECREATION OF CHATTANOOGA (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $151,644 to it, the largest being MOVE UNITED ($136,644). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $61k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $152k
- Net assets
- $150k
What Sports Arts & Recreation of Chattanooga does
Mission
To serve the recreational and competitive needs of individuals with disabilities in an environment with their able-bodied relatives and friends.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Adaptive cycling runs between april and september and includes eleven two hour sessions at the hubert frye center in chattanooga. Sparc owns a variety of adult and pediatric cycles, including three-wheel cycles (handcycles and recumbent cycles), tandems, and "standard cycles". This year 46 individuals with disabilities were served, along with 31 family members and assisted by 76 volunteers. Sparc partners in adaptive cycling with the city of chattanooga's therapeutic recreation department, which provides additional adaptive cycles if needed; and we partner with outdoor chattanooga which provides additional "standard cycles" that volunteers can borrow if they don't bring their own bikes.
$187 spent3% of program spendingAdaptive water skiing's largest single event of each year is our annual "water sports day", which is held at the first lutheran church camp on possum creek (backwater of the tennessee river's lake chickamauga). This event includes: water skiing, tubing, kayaking, stand-up paddleboarding, and pontoon boat rides on that day. Adaptive water skiing also included one six-hour "training day" to train volunteers serving in key positions such as "side skiers", deep water starters, and "quick release persons" (who release ski ropes from the pull boat when skiers fall to avoid injury). We also held seven three-hour "advanced water skier training sessions". The total program time for adaptive water skiing was 35 hours. This year 30 individuals with disabilities were served, along with 28 family members and were assisted by 189 volunteers and one paid instructor.
$5,206 spentof which $6,500 as grants95% of program spendingWheelchair basketball programming included five two hour sessions of wheelchair basketball held at the city of chattanooga's hixson community center on one saturday per month between november and march of each year. Sparc owns twelve "quickie/dave kiley" model wheelchairs served 15 individuals with disabilities and 14 family members. 16 volunteers provided assistance and participated in the "pickup style" games.
$99 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $5,492.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $128k to $150k (+18%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $21k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 SPORTS ARTS & RECREATION OF CHATTANOOGA’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
SPORTS ARTS & RECREATION OF CHATTANOOGA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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
100% 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 SPORTS ARTS & RECREATION OF CHATTANOOGA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 58% · 2023 76% — 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.
Where its funders are
SPORTS ARTS & RECREATION OF CHATTANOOGA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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.
Organizations like SPORTS ARTS & RECREATION OF CHATTANOOGA
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPORTS ARTS & RECREATION OF CHATTANOOGA?
- SPORTS ARTS & RECREATION OF CHATTANOOGA (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $151,644 to it, the largest being MOVE UNITED ($136,644). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPORTS ARTS & RECREATION OF CHATTANOOGA have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $151,644 in grants to SPORTS ARTS & RECREATION OF CHATTANOOGA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPORTS ARTS & RECREATION OF CHATTANOOGA?
- MOVE UNITED is the largest funder on record, with $136,644 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPORTS ARTS & RECREATION OF CHATTANOOGA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 2 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