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STEWARDS OF THE GAME INC

STEWARDS OF THE GAME INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,411 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($95,436). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$48k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$155k
Net assets
$5k
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What Stewards of the Game Inc does

Mission

To teach young people valuable, faith based life lessons through sports that will help them grow up to be honest, respectful, disciplined, hardworking, compassionate role models in their communities while preserving their love for the game and cultivating their love for the lord.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Baseball - approximately 400 children ages 5-16 in the north mecklenburg area participate in t-ball and baseball across five age groups in the spring and fall.

    $59,954 spentof which $30,000 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. Basketball - approximately 200 children in the north mecklenburg area participate in basketball across five age troups in the winter and in summer camp.

  3. Volleyball, softball and general expenses

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $59,954.

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 ($196k) Expenses 100 ($198k) Net assets 100 ($37k)2018 Revenue 93 ($183k) Expenses 96 ($191k) Net assets 93 ($35k)2019 Revenue 115 ($226k) Expenses 115 ($228k) Net assets 91 ($34k)2020 Revenue 64 ($126k) Expenses 58 ($114k) Net assets 129 ($48k)2021 Revenue 41 ($81k) Expenses 29 ($57k) Net assets 161 ($60k)2022 Revenue 43 ($84k) Expenses 36 ($72k) Net assets 217 ($81k)2023 Revenue 38 ($75k) Expenses 43 ($85k) Net assets 138 ($52k)2024 Revenue 25 ($48k) Expenses 35 ($69k) Net assets 13 ($5k)
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Revenue (25)Expenses (35)Net assets (13)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 2023 to 2024, from $52k to $5k (−90%).

$38k
$40k
$45k
$49k
$61k
$81k
$52k
$5k
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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.

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2018
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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

26% of STEWARDS OF THE GAME INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,075 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’17
−$8k
’18
−$2k
’19
$11k
’20
$24k
’21
$12k
’22
−$10k
’23
−$21k
’24
2.4
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $4k → $7k.

5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 STEWARDS OF THE GAME 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

STEWARDS OF THE GAME INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

96% 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 STEWARDS OF THE GAME INC.

61%
largest funder
89%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 96% · 2019 75% · 2020 80% · 2021 41% · 2022 93% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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 STEWARDS OF THE GAME INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

96% of STEWARDS OF THE GAME 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 $6k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from North Carolina funders.

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

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

STEWARDS OF THE GAME INC's revenue fell 75% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−44% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−18% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like STEWARDS OF THE GAME INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds STEWARDS OF THE GAME INC?
STEWARDS OF THE GAME INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,411 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($95,436). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does STEWARDS OF THE GAME INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $155,411 in grants to STEWARDS OF THE GAME INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STEWARDS OF THE GAME INC?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $95,436 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STEWARDS OF THE GAME INC 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.

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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 9 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