Sports Outreach
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020729282
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Asheville, NC, US
- Phone
- (828) 301-0477
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $176,657
- Expenses
- $150,076
- Assets
- $246,709
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- JACK BRINKLEY (EXECUTIVE DI)
- DIANA BRINKLEY (SECRETARY)
- DEBBIE OLANDER (TREASURER)
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 share the message of Jesus Christ in sports settings, helping student / athletes and coaches to integrate their faith with their sport, and to help motivate them to play well.
What it reported doing in 2024
Half day "mini camp" - asheville high & 3 other high schools compete in football drills from 9 am to 12:30 pm. A motivational speaker speaks for 20 minutes during the dinner hour. A big emphasis is on sportsmanship and meeting players from other teams. Organization funds 2,000 for the entire camp. Athletes pay nothing, the majority cannot afford it. Organization provides dinner, a speaker, a t-shirt, a christian sports magazine and 4 hours of competition. The half day mini-camp serves approximately 100 student athletes and approximately 15-20 coaches (120 total).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.1%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 99.7%; rating input score 100
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: 15%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.64; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 35.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.1% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 85.1% of revenue deployed · 99.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $150K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- 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.