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THE CHAMPIONS FUND INC

EIN 59-3685490 DUNEDIN, FL

Revenue 2024
$126,704
Expenses 2024
$100,927

Program services were 97.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T20
Classification
1000
Street
2258 EDYTHE DR

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

OUR MISSION IS TO SIMPLIFY CHARITABLE GIVING AMOUNG PRO ATHLETES AND SPORT RELATED CHARITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THEIR COMMUNITIES.

  • THE CHAMPIONS FUND THROUGH ITS TORTORELLA FAMILY PROGRAM WORKS TO SUPPORT ANIMAL RESUE OPERATIONS AND PROMOTE HUMANE EDUCATION THROUGH GRANTS TO OTHER 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN VERIFIED AS ELIGABLE AND OPERATE ACCORDING TO CERTAIN QUALITY AND HUMANE STANDARDS. THEY ALSO PROMOTE LITERACY BY MAKING FREE CHILDRENS BOOKS, MUSIC AND JOURNALS FOR SELF REFLECTION TO YOUTH AGES 6 TO 10 SCHOOLS IN LOW INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS.

    Expenses $98,700 · Grants $91,500 · Revenue $118,704

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.

  • ANNE RUGARI

    PRESIDENTSECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TRACY THOMPSON

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • CHRISTIAN BIZZOTTO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

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
    $126,704
    Expenses
    $100,927
    Contributions
    $126,704
    Grants paid
    $92,020
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $192,430
    Expenses
    $131,720
    Contributions
    $192,430
    Grants paid
    $120,462
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $158,000
    Expenses
    $170,551
    Contributions
    $158,000
    Grants paid
    $158,500

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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $98,712
    Expenses
    $89,474
    Assets (EOY)
    $91,948

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $121,139
    Expenses
    $122,050
    Assets (EOY)
    $149,798

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $119,782
    Expenses
    $130,425
    Assets (EOY)
    $137,211

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $169,019
    Expenses
    $183,893
    Assets (EOY)
    $182,797

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.