Real Sports

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
853321777
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Sanford, NC, USA
Phone
9105840962
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Recreation& Sports N.E.C.
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$161,698
Expenses
$111,399
Assets
$83,496
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Darrell Brown (President)
  • Bradley Peffly (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Darrell Brown (President)
  • Bradley Peffly (Vice President)
  • Allen Coats (Secretary)

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 purpose of REAL Sports is to minister to the whole person, radically equipping athletes for life. We seek to do this by developing individuals physically, emotionally, socially, relationally, and spiritually. It is the mission of REAL Sports to provide a positive, competitive, faith-based sports culture for players, parents, spectators, and coaches driven by a desire to honor Jesus Christ in and through sports.

What it reported doing in 2024

The heart of REAL Sports is to develop the whole person through a Christ-centered sports culture and to prepare athletes to achieve their fullest potential for God in all areas, including the sports they love. Our program services, which include open gyms, clinics, camps, and competitive club sports, seek to develop individuals through sport in each of these 5 distinct areas: physically, emotionally, socially, relationally, and spiritually. Our program services are conducted by coaches, trainers, and other volunteers. We conduct our program services at various athletic venues, some of which we are able to use at no charge and others for which we must pay rental fees. The percentage of time allocated to our program services was substantial, as activities took place multiple times each week for at least 6 months out of the year, and at least monthly for the other 6 months, with many of those months having multiple day activities. The program services offered by REAL Sports are funded by participation fees and donations. The exempt purpose for which REAL Sports is organized is to establish, maintain, promote, and operate a faith-based sports ministry that is religious, charitable, and educational. Our program services are critical to this purpose by allowing our volunteers the opportunity to impact athletes and their families, spectators, and coaches purposely and directly. Our program services allow us to incorporate basic disciplines that minister to the whole person. In addition, we perform these objectives with a God-centered focus.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 77% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 71
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 63.7%; rating input score 64
  • Program expense ratio: 92.5%; rating input score 93

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: 31.1%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 32.9% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 60.5% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 63.7% of revenue deployed · 92.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $103K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
  • 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.

  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.