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Who We Play For Inc

Who We Play For Inc (Florida) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $477,643 to it, the largest being MOTORSPORTS CHARITIES INC ($145,050). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.6M
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$478k
Net assets
$1.5M
6/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Who We Play For Inc does

Mission

The organizations mission is to eliminate preventable sudden cardiac death in the young through affordable heart screenings.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide free and low cost heart screenings to student athletes and individuals.

    $2,931,387 spentof which $29,478 as grants$3,593,918 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,931,387.

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 ($403k) Expenses 100 ($364k) Net assets 100 ($38k)2020 Revenue 92 ($370k) Expenses 103 ($375k) Net assets 127 ($48k)2021 Revenue 302 ($1.2M) Expenses 185 ($675k) Net assets 1539 ($587k)2022 Revenue 182 ($733k) Expenses 198 ($722k) Net assets 1764 ($673k)2023 Revenue 243 ($979k) Expenses 327 ($1.2M) Net assets 1328 ($507k)2024 Revenue 562 ($2.3M) Expenses 569 ($2.1M) Net assets 2131 ($814k)2025 Revenue 894 ($3.6M) Expenses 851 ($3.1M) Net assets 3865 ($1.5M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (894)Expenses (851)Net assets (3865)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 $891k to $1.6M (+83%).

$65k
$69k
$667k
$680k
$533k
$891k
$1.6M
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

Government-grant reliance: 2021 1% · 2022 2% · 2023 0% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of Who We Play For Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$38k
’19
−$5k
’20
$539k
’21
$11k
’22
−$214k
’23
$188k
’24
$498k
’25
4.4
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.

Chief executive

Ernst Evan

Executive Director

Board chair

Maccarone Ralph

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed10111010101718
Joined·+1+0+0+0+10+4
No longer listed·010033
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $14k → $131k.

5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 Who We Play For 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

Who We Play For Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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

80% 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 Who We Play For Inc.

30%
largest funder
57%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 65% · 2019 71% · 2020 50% · 2021 62% · 2022 91% · 2023 29% — 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

17% of Who We Play For Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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

51% of Who We Play For Inc's grant income comes from Florida funders.

NY
OH
NJ
CT
NC
SC
GA
TX
FL

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $194k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Who We Play For Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve4.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)44% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding Who We Play For Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $963k on record.

State$963k
Top programs
  • STATE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $963k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Who We Play For Inc

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 Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

17
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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Who We Play For Inc?
Who We Play For Inc (Florida) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $477,643 to it, the largest being MOTORSPORTS CHARITIES INC ($145,050). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Who We Play For Inc have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $477,643 in grants to Who We Play For Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Who We Play For Inc?
MOTORSPORTS CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $145,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Who We Play For Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 20 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