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Sports Outreach Institute Inc

Sports Outreach Institute Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,849,920 to it, the largest being CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($610,650). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$4.2M
Funders on record
25
Grants received
$2.8M
Net assets
$213k
12/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Sports Outreach Institute Inc does

Mission

To restore hope and transform lives through the effective use of on-field sports activities and off-field humanitarian and sustainability initiatives.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Sustainability Initiatives

    $1,883,867 spent
    54% of program spending
  2. Other program expenses

    $912,483 spent
    26% of program spending
  3. Kampala, uganda- provided sports equipment, clothing, vocational (farm) equipment, construction, vocational training, primary education, public health, medical aid, and food

    $353,528 spent
    10% of program spending
  4. Nairobi, kenya- provided sports equipment, clothing, vocational (farm) equipment, construction, vocational training, primary education, public health, medical aid, and food

    $88,831 spent
    3% of program spending
  5. Gulu, uganda- provided sports equipment, clothing, vocational (farm) equipment, construction, vocational training, primary education, public health, medical aid, and food

    $58,924 spent
    2% of program spending
  6. Ometepec, mexico- provided sports equipment, clothing, vocational (farm) equipment, construction, vocational training, primary education, public health, medical aid, and food

    $51,469 spent
    1% of program spending
  7. El salvador-provided sports equipment, clothing, vocational (farm) equipment, construction, vocationl training, primary education, public health, medical aid and food

    $50,055 spent
    1% of program spending
  8. Brazil - provided sports equipment, clothing, vocational (farm) equipment, construction, vocational training, primary education, public health, medical aid, and food

    $31,100 spent
    1% of program spending
  9. India - provided sports equipment, clothing, vocational (farm) equipment, construction, vocational training, primary education, public health, medical aid, and food

    $15,651 spent
    0% of program spending
  10. Croatia - provided sports equipment, clothing, vocational (farm) equipment, construction, vocational training, primary education, public health, medical aid, and food

    $12,729 spent
    0% of program spending

The 10 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,458,637.

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 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($79k)2018 Revenue 107 ($2.0M) Expenses 102 ($2.0M) Net assets 131 ($104k)2019 Revenue 99 ($1.8M) Expenses 91 ($1.8M) Net assets 238 ($188k)2020 Revenue 91 ($1.7M) Expenses 92 ($1.8M) Net assets 137 ($108k)2021 Revenue 96 ($1.8M) Expenses 89 ($1.7M) Net assets 210 ($166k)2022 Revenue 113 ($2.1M) Expenses 108 ($2.1M) Net assets 252 ($199k)2023 Revenue 145 ($2.7M) Expenses 129 ($2.5M) Net assets 513 ($406k)2024 Revenue 154 ($2.8M) Expenses 165 ($3.2M) Net assets 92 ($72k)2025 Revenue 225 ($4.2M) Expenses 209 ($4.0M) Net assets 270 ($213k)
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Revenue (225)Expenses (209)Net assets (270)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 $222k to $500k (+125%).

$98k
$128k
$245k
$240k
$292k
$222k
$500k
$259k
$396k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

44% of Sports Outreach Institute Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$71k
’17
$25k
’18
$85k
’19
−$80k
’20
$58k
’21
$33k
’22
$206k
’23
−$333k
’24
$141k
’25
0.6
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

Sal Ferlise

CEO

Board chair

Cliff Lundberg

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed181616161312121010
Joined·+1+0+3+0+2+0+1+0
No longer listed·30333030
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 11 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $357k → $447k.

11 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 Outreach Institute Inc’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 Outreach Institute Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 Sports Outreach Institute Inc.

21%
largest funder
60%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 43% · 2019 42% · 2020 24% · 2021 35% · 2022 47% · 2023 34% — 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

50% of Sports Outreach Institute Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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

59% of Sports Outreach Institute Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.2M that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 8 states.

WA
OR
CA
VA
TN
NC
SC
GA

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 Outreach Institute Inc has grown faster than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Sports Outreach Institute Inc

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In Virginia

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 13%Fundraising 1%

Governance

11
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

VA

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds Sports Outreach Institute Inc?
Sports Outreach Institute Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,849,920 to it, the largest being CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($610,650). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Sports Outreach Institute Inc have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $2,849,920 in grants to Sports Outreach Institute Inc, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Sports Outreach Institute Inc?
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $610,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Sports Outreach Institute Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 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