The Athletes' Corner
Legal name: Athletes Corner
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843367315
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Higley, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 5097136519
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $104,364
- Expenses
- $41,112
- Assets
- $133,934
- Liabilities
- $636
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brennen Creer (President)
People named in this filing
- Brennen Creer (President)
- Kelenna Azubuike (Officer)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Athletes' Corner works with professional athletes and teams to help fight hunger by providing meals to families “the least of these,” inspired by Matthew 25 and carried out through “the vehicle of sports.”. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, we pivoted on our original plans and immediately launched our platform. We knew that with our network of athletes, coupled with our strategic vision, we could help uplift, encourage and inspire those who desperately needed it during a time of crisis. 2021 - The Success Since launching The Athletes’ Corner in early 2020, we have experienced tremendous growth and impact. By working with 50+ professional athletes and teams, we fed over 2.5 million people - and generated over 70,000 followers and 150 million social media impressions from content centered on faith and family.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Athletes' Corner is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works with professional athletes and teams to help families who are struggling mentally, physically, and spiritually - all through the vehicle of sports.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 38
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 84
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 24.2%; rating input score 24
- Program expense ratio: 61.3%; rating input score 61
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 60.6%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.26; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -31.1% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -23.4% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 24.2% of revenue deployed · 61.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.