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SPORTS MENTORSHIP ACADEMY

SPORTS MENTORSHIP ACADEMY (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $643,032 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA ($311,623). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$175k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$643k
Net assets
$191k
4/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 55%
01What it does

What Sports Mentorship Academy does

Mission

Sports Mentorship Academy is a nonprofit corporation organized for the general purpose of providing a positive and enriching environment through an after school program that encompasses academic enrichment, life skill development, health and wellness, and community service in a setting that promotes positive and healthy socialization as well as development.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The unique facet of the academy is that it incorporates kinesthetic learning with other significant activities necessary for the success of its participants. There are five major components: sports activities- these are taught twice weekly by college student- athletes and includes skills development, teamwork, and physical fitness. Sports tours- exposes students to various sports career related fields, and college campus sporting events to increase their awareness of college life. Study hall- participants experience academic success through kinesthetic learning, and tutoring. Service learning each student and college mentor will engage in a service learning project together as a way of giving back. Student life- purpose is to give our participants a voice in their affairs, and while at the same time equal decision making in planning events.

    $166,674 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Truancy response assisting challenging kids( track) is a school based intervention mentoring program that meets during lunch/recess for students who are involved in the juvenile court system due to excessive absences from school.

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $166,674.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($119k) Expenses 100 ($119k) Net assets 100 ($17k)2018 Revenue 125 ($149k) Expenses 114 ($136k) Net assets 175 ($30k)2019 Revenue 142 ($169k) Expenses 126 ($149k) Net assets 288 ($50k)2020 Revenue 131 ($155k) Expenses 96 ($114k) Net assets 525 ($91k)2021 Revenue 151 ($179k) Expenses 158 ($187k) Net assets 478 ($83k)2022 Revenue 160 ($190k) Expenses 163 ($194k) Net assets 459 ($79k)2023 Revenue 287 ($340k) Expenses 174 ($207k) Net assets 1228 ($213k)2024 Revenue 147 ($175k) Expenses 165 ($196k) Net assets 1106 ($191k)
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Revenue (147)Expenses (165)Net assets (1106)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 2022 to 2023, from $81k to $214k (+166%).

$20k
$35k
$51k
$92k
$84k
$81k
$214k
$191k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of SPORTS MENTORSHIP ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$82
’17
$13k
’18
$20k
’19
$41k
’20
−$8k
’21
−$3k
’22
$133k
’23
−$21k
’24
5.5
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.

20232024
Listed66
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $65k → $40k.

5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 MENTORSHIP ACADEMY’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 MENTORSHIP ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

95% 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 MENTORSHIP ACADEMY.

48%
largest funder
90%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 63% · 2019 49% · 2020 63% · 2021 44% · 2022 84% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

29% of SPORTS MENTORSHIP ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

98% of SPORTS MENTORSHIP ACADEMY's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN
TX

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

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’18
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’20
’21
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $287k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 MENTORSHIP ACADEMY is better cushioned than half of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−12% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like SPORTS MENTORSHIP ACADEMY

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 Minnesota

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 5%Fundraising 10%

Governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds SPORTS MENTORSHIP ACADEMY?
SPORTS MENTORSHIP ACADEMY (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $643,032 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA ($311,623). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SPORTS MENTORSHIP ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $643,032 in grants to SPORTS MENTORSHIP ACADEMY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SPORTS MENTORSHIP ACADEMY?
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA is the largest funder on record, with $311,623 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SPORTS MENTORSHIP ACADEMY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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