A Fighting Chance

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
301257678
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
Location
Orange, CA, USA
Phone
3236063532
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Physical Fitness and Community Recreational Facilities

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$20,169
Expenses
$57,573
Assets
$3,728
Liabilities
$5,629

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • AMAR MARWAHA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • CHASE GIBSON (FOUNDER)
  • AMAR MARWAHA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To empower underserved and at-risk youth and young adults through fitness, mentorship, wellness, leadership development, and supportive programs that promote healthy lifestyles, personal development, and positive life outcomes.

What it reported doing in 2025

A Fighting Chance provided fitness, wellness, mentorship, and supportive programming to underserved and at-risk youth and young adults, including individuals impacted by foster care, substance use, gang involvement, justice-system involvement, and other barriers. Services promoted physical wellness, discipline, confidence, positive decision-making, mentorship, and personal development through structured fitness and community-based activities. Approximately 200 youth and community members were served in 2025.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 95
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 13
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 87.1%; rating input score 87

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -185.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.51; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 86% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 23.9% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 87.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $50K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.