Minnesota · Nonprofit
UNCOMMON SPORTS GROUP
UNCOMMON SPORTS GROUP (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,350 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($40,900). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $91k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Uncommon Sports Group does
Mission
To maximize the utilization of sport as a positive social agent for change on both a domestic and international level by developing christ-centered leaders of the college & pro sports industries.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The usg academy consists of an 8-week curriculum thatfuture leaders of the sport industry complete remotely alongside othermembers of their team. The usg academy challenges participants to growspiritually and professionally through weekly calls to action,discussions, and coaching sessions with our usg staff. Usg covers thecosts for every individual who successfully completes the 8-weekprogram to come together for an in-person weekend event. These "weekendgatherings" provide an opportunity for attendees to put what they havelearned into action through facility tours, guest speakers, biblestudies, and outreach projects. Usg hosted weekend gatherings for 62future leaders of the sports industry throughout 2024 in phoenix, dallas, & minneapolis.
$1,256,731 spent39% of program spendingUsg invests in the ongoing professional and spiritual development ofthe future leaders of the sports industry by providing them access toour usg connect app in addition to helping them participate inprofessional and spiritual development experiences. Usg now hashundreds of members active on the usg connect app. Highlights of the2024 professional and spiritual development experiences usg providedinclude hosting our annual christians working in sports conference, along with helping send members to the passion conference in atlanta, men's basketball coaches convention, women's basketball coaches convention, ads 4 christ conference, nacda, daniel summit, and women's leaders in college sports conference in addition to our mission trip to kenya. This trip included 9 future leaders of the sports industry and 2 usg staff. Our kenya mission trip team was able to come alongside local leaders in helping lead leading sports camps for youth & coaches throughout the nairobi area.
$1,370,159 spentof which $88,658 as grants43% of program spendingUsg awarded $30k in scholarships in the spring and fallsemesters to 26 future leaders of the college and pro sports industry.participants of the scholarship programs were challenged to reflectupon a specific prompt through an essay.
$575,930 spentof which $30,000 as grants18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,202,820.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $132k to $2.1M (+1470%).
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.
98% of UNCOMMON SPORTS GROUP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Andrew Boe
Executive director
Board chair
Daniel Mcintosh
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $10k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 UNCOMMON SPORTS GROUP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. 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
UNCOMMON SPORTS GROUP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 UNCOMMON SPORTS GROUP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 78% · 2020 51% · 2021 81% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
86% of UNCOMMON SPORTS GROUP'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 $13k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
UNCOMMON SPORTS GROUP has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like UNCOMMON SPORTS GROUP
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNCOMMON SPORTS GROUP: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNCOMMON SPORTS GROUP?
- UNCOMMON SPORTS GROUP (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,350 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($40,900). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNCOMMON SPORTS GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $91,350 in grants to UNCOMMON SPORTS GROUP, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNCOMMON SPORTS GROUP?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $40,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNCOMMON SPORTS GROUP 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 8 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