New Jersey · Nonprofit
WRITE ON SPORTS INC
WRITE ON SPORTS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,024,072 to it, the largest being Children's Foundation of the Oranges ($186,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $394k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $176k
What Write on Sports Inc does
Mission
Write on sports is a distinctive education program whose mission is to inspire middle school students to improve their writing skills by tapping into their passion for sports.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
First draft academy employs dynamic program models and instructional methods, allowing us to adapt content, pacing, and delivery to the needs of diverse student populations. We offer programs throughout the year with after-school workshops, multi-week summer programs, and event-based workshops. Currently, the themes explore the arts, sports and student topics of choice in write on sports, write on arts and the media lab. At their core, all first draft academy programs strengthen essential literacy skills, including writing, critical thinking, research, and multimedia production, while introducing students to the early foundations of real-world career pathways. In 2025, over 500 students were served in four states (nj, in, co, and ca). First draft academy was featured on the national morning show good morning america as a program working to help close the literacy education gap.
$235,732 spent$162,107 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $235,732.
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 2019 to 2020, from $101k to $158k (+56%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 0% · 2020 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of WRITE ON SPORTS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $83k → $156k.
7 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 WRITE ON SPORTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
WRITE ON SPORTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
42% 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 WRITE ON SPORTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 33% · 2019 32% · 2020 25% · 2021 26% · 2022 26% · 2023 19% — 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
63% of WRITE ON SPORTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
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
81% of WRITE ON SPORTS INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $427k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
WRITE ON SPORTS INC has grown faster than half of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like WRITE ON SPORTS 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WRITE ON SPORTS INC: 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 WRITE ON SPORTS INC?
- WRITE ON SPORTS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,024,072 to it, the largest being Children's Foundation of the Oranges ($186,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WRITE ON SPORTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,024,072 in grants to WRITE ON SPORTS INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WRITE ON SPORTS INC?
- Children's Foundation of the Oranges is the largest funder on record, with $186,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WRITE ON SPORTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 31 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