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SPORTS CREATIVE FOUNDATION

SPORTS CREATIVE FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $749,152 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($400,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$361k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$749k
Net assets
$11k
5/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 64%
01What it does

What Sports Creative Foundation does

Mission

The organization creates community-led sports & arts programs for at-risk youth, supporting their physical, social, and emotional well-being.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. General programs are programs partnered with or set up by the sports creative using sports and storytelling. Active programs: free soccer programming for schools in nyc, specifically the south bronx. Partnership with south bronx united, south bronx. Free soccer for the refugee and immigrant community in oxford circle, philadelphia. A sports-based program for kids at-risk in la piña, santo domingo, dominican republic. A free soccer for peace program in one of rio's most violent favelas, brazil. In addition, we support various organizations with sports storytelling activities for kids, including the us soccer federation and love.fútbol

    $226,984 spentof which $189,985 as grants
    65% of program spending
  2. Surfers not street children - helping street kids in south africa through surfing and love welcomes helping refugee families in green and the uk. We are the 'us partner' of both these organizations.

    $119,944 spentof which $119,944 as grants
    35% of program spending
  3. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $346,928.

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 ($92k) Expenses 100 ($83k) Net assets 100 ($10k)2020 Revenue 97 ($90k) Expenses 109 ($90k) Net assets 93 ($9k)2021 Revenue 296 ($274k) Expenses 331 ($273k) Net assets 98 ($10k)2022 Revenue 371 ($343k) Expenses 414 ($342k) Net assets 107 ($10k)2023 Revenue 535 ($494k) Expenses 601 ($496k) Net assets 90 ($9k)2024 Revenue 248 ($229k) Expenses 278 ($229k) Net assets 90 ($9k)2025 Revenue 391 ($361k) Expenses 435 ($359k) Net assets 110 ($11k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (391)Expenses (435)Net assets (110)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 2024 to 2025, from $9k to $11k (+22%).

$10k
$9k
$10k
$10k
$9k
$9k
$11k
2019202020212022202320242025
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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of SPORTS CREATIVE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,844 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’19
−$660
’20
$516
’21
$955
’22
−$2k
’23
−$43
’24
$2k
’25
0.4
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.

20212022202320242025
Listed65567
Joined·+1+0+2+1
No longer listed·2010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $12k → $182k.

6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 CREATIVE FOUNDATION’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 CREATIVE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

29% 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 CREATIVE FOUNDATION.

53%
largest funder
81%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 75% · 2022 46% · 2023 55% — 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

40% of SPORTS CREATIVE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

SPORTS CREATIVE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states in all.

NY
MA
CA
TN

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $207k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

SPORTS CREATIVE FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like SPORTS CREATIVE FOUNDATION

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 New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

49%

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 CREATIVE FOUNDATION?
SPORTS CREATIVE FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $749,152 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($400,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SPORTS CREATIVE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $749,152 in grants to SPORTS CREATIVE FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SPORTS CREATIVE FOUNDATION?
THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SPORTS CREATIVE FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 12 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