Life Beyond the Game Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 332009707
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Monroe, GA, USA
- Phone
- 6783821809
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,975
- Expenses
- $24,162
- Assets
- $4,813
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- Chelsia Mckie (Founder)
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
Life Beyond The Game was formed to empower and prepare student-athletes and students interested in careers connected to the sports industry for success beyond the game through education mentorship workforce exposure leadership development and mental wellness support. The organization was created to address the need for holistic programming that helps youth recognize opportunities beyond athletics while developing life skills that support long-term success. Life Beyond The Game operates exclusively for charitable and educational purposes by providing interactive experiences workshops career exploration college readiness financial literacy and community-based programming for students and families. The organization partners with schools nonprofits businesses and community leaders to connect youth with positive role models and real-world opportunities in industries such as sports technology healthcare media finance and skilled trades.
What it reported doing in 2025
The 2025 Georgia Life Beyond The Game Experience in Gwinnett County was a full-day educational and leadership development program designed to prepare middle and high school students for success beyond athletics. The experience brought together students educators professional athletes entrepreneurs workforce leaders and community partners for interactive learning mentorship and career exposure opportunities. The program served student-athletes students interested in sports-related career pathways parents coaches and community members. The experience included keynote speakers athlete and professional panels career and college readiness workshops financial literacy education mental wellness discussions media and technology exposure health and wellness programming and hands-on trade and workforce development activities. Students also participated in networking opportunities with professionals across industries including sports healthcare finance media technology and skilled trades. Additional program activities included community partner expos leadership development sessions mentorship opportunities scholarship and career exposure initiatives and interactive experiences designed to help students identify pathways for long-term success beyond sports. The programs measurable impact included engaging hundreds of students and adults while expanding partnerships with schools nonprofits businesses and community organizations throughout Georgia and other states.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 77% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.1%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 80.5%; rating input score 80
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.6%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.1% of revenue deployed · 80.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.