Sports Plus+
Legal name: Discipleship Plus Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752511590
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Dallas, TX, United States
- Phone
- (214) 240-8189
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $119,794
- Expenses
- $115,853
- Assets
- $12,660
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- Stephen Richard Kirwan (Executive Dir.)
- Nicholas Robert Mesec (Director)
- Erin Leigh Garrett (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
_To offer opportunities for youth in the community with an emphasis on challenging them athletically and spiritually._ SPORTS PLUS+was founded in the Fall of 1996 under the guidance of several Godly men for the sole purpose of offering more competitive athletic opportunities to youth in the Park Cities, North Dallas and surrounding areas in Texas. This now includes Missouri as well. Sports Plus+ is the sports ministry of Discipleship Plus+ Incorporated (Founded 1993) in the State of Texas and exists to challenge athletes not only physically, but spiritually by conveying to them that all their talents and abilities come from God. Just as important, those talents are distinctly int.
What it reported doing in 2024
Offering opportunities for youth in the community with an emphasis on challenging them athletically and spiritually
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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.7%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 72%; rating input score 72
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: 3.3%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 42.3%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 43% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 31.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 31.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 69.7% of revenue deployed · 72% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $83K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.