Sports Challenge
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943235338
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6507995200
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Interfaith Coalitions
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $183,391
- Expenses
- $97,962
- Assets
- $239,771
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDY CHAN (PRESIDENT/CH)
People named in this filing
- KEVIN MILLER (AT LARGE)
- ANDY CHAN (PRESIDENT/CH)
- JACK MOSBACHER (AT LARGE)
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 encourage, educate, and equip student-athletes at stanford university and smu to be devoted followers of jesus and to reach their full spiritual potential.
What it reported doing in 2024
Due to the fact that jim has turned 81, and is fighting stage 4 thyroid cancer and stage 4 prostate cancer, facetime and zoom have become the major sources of communication with the present and past athletes and coaches in his deep relationship circle on most days. Also more and more members of the next generation of sports mentors continue to come to him for mentoring. In addition, other sports ministry leaders chose to draw on his six plus decades of experience in mentoring high-performance athletes. He has recently been recognized as being one of two people who are the pioneers of sports ministry on the college and professional levels. Jim has recently received back the publishing rights to his book, the power of one-on-one, originally published by baker books in 2014. It has now been widely accepted, adapted and published in several languages. The book reveals the proven principles jim has used over six decades to encourage individuals in a one-on-one setting on how to utilize the principles jesus used to change the world. From those many years of experience jim has learned that athletes will not reveal the deepest issues in their lives if a teammate or someone else is involved in the conversations. Therefore, he provides a safe, personal setting for the individuals who wish to meet with him, allowing them to feel free to ask any questions with which they might be struggling spiritually, with family issues, in their sport or in relationships with a significant other.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 43.1%; rating input score 43
- Program expense ratio: 80.6%; rating input score 81
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: 46.6%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.45; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -36.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 43.1% of revenue deployed · 80.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $79K 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: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.