High Impact Athletes Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873955308
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Lewes, DE, USA
- Phone
- 2041008280
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $480,243
- Expenses
- $381,597
- Assets
- $181,098
- Liabilities
- $10,999
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- MARCUS DANIELL (FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECT): $63,298 total reported compensation
- JACK LEWARS (INDIVIDUAL TRUSTEE): $6,010 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To create a groundswell of positive impact in the world, driven by the generosity and social influence of professional athletes.
What it reported doing in 2024
High impact athletes (hia) educates high-profile athletes and their fans about the benefits of effective charitable giving. We harness athletes' social influence to promote charitable giving and generate donations, not just from the athletes but from their fans and the general public. For many of our athletes, their experience through high impact athletes is their first step into philanthropy, so we are generating a new source of donations for charitable organizations and new role models for giving. Athlete and sports fan donations are made to charities that hia has determined to be the most impactful charities in the world in the sectors of global health & poverty, climate change, animal welfare, and mental health. We work with charity research organizations, including givewell, the life you can save, and animal charity evaluators, as well as utilizing reports from open philanthropy and founders pledge, to bring what we determine to be the best charities into one online giving platform. Our website connects athletes, their fan bases, and the broader population with these high impact giving opportunities to support the organizations' charitable programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 63% for direct work, and 37% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.4%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 75.6%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $51.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.3%; rating input score 99; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.5%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.2%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 35.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 30.2% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.4% of revenue deployed · 75.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $289K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $63K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 8 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.