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FAIR FIGHT FOUNDATION INC

EIN 99-2990876 NEW YORK, NY

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Revenue 2024
$3,366,597
Expenses 2024
$406,667

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
N99
Classification
1200
Street
CO TBG 9 EAST 37TH STREET 7TH FL

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE ORGINIZATION'S MISSION IS TO ELEVATE THE SPORT OF JIU JITSU AND DIRECTLY SUPPORT CHARITABLE CAUSES ACROSS ITS GLOBAL COMMUNITY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION IS TO PROMOTE, ADVANCE, AND EXPAND THE SPORT OF JIU-JITSU WHILE SUPPORTING CHARITABLE CAUSES WITHIN ITS GLOBAL COMMUNITY. THE FAIR FIGHT FOUNDATION CARRIES OUT THIS MISSION BY TRAVELING INTERNATIONALLY TO ENGAGE WITH COMMUNITIES IN NEED, PRODUCING CONTENT TO RAISE AWARENESS, AND ORGANIZING INITIATIVES INTENDED TO PROVIDE SUPPORT AND RESOURCES. THE FOUNDATION'S FLAGSHIP EVENT IS THE CRAIG JONES INVITATIONAL (CJI), A JIU-JITSU COMPETITION THAT PROMOTES THE SPORT AND HELPS GENERATE VISIBILITY AND SUPPORT FOR THE ORGANIZATION'S CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES.

  • THE FOUNDATION'S FLAGSHIP EVENT, THE CRAIG JONES INVITATIONAL (CJI), SET RECORDS IN 2024 AS THE HIGHEST-PAYING AND MOST-WATCHED JIU-JITSU EVENT OF ALL TIME. THE FOUNDATION AWARDED $166,667 TO TAP CANCER OUT TO SUPPORT THIS EFFORT, FURTHERING ITS MISSION OF ELEVATING THE SPORT OF JIU-JITSU AND EXPANDING ITS REACH GLOBALLY.

    Expenses $166,667 · Grants $166,667

  • THE FOUNDATION AWARDED $115,000 TO GUARDIAN TO SUPPORT THEIR MISSION OF PROVIDING FREE YOUTH JIU-JITSU SCHOLARSHIPS AND IMPROVING LOCAL GYM FACILITIES. THIS INITIATIVE FURTHERS OUR GOAL OF PROMOTING THE SPORT AND EXPANDING ACCESS TO HIGH-QUALITY TRAINING FOR YOUNG ATHLETES GLOBALLY.

    Expenses $115,000 · Grants $115,000

  • THE FOUNDATION AWARDED $50,000 TO AN ORPHANAGE IN BALI TO ESTABLISH JIU-JITSU CLASSES FOR CHILDREN. THE PROGRAM HELPS BUILD CONFIDENCE, DISCIPLINE, AND LIFE SKILLS THROUGH THE SPORT, FURTHERING OUR MISSION OF PROMOTING JIU-JITSU AND POSITIVELY IMPACTING YOUTH GLOBALLY.

    Expenses $50,000 · Grants $50,000

  • Expenses $75,000 · Grants $75,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Seth Belisle

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Craig Jones

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Michael Mann

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,366,597
    Expenses
    $406,667
    Contributions
    $6,248,960
    Grants paid
    $406,667

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.