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CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC

EIN 33-0739596 SAN DIEGO, CA

Revenue 2025
$12,831,092
Expenses 2025
$13,794,130

Program services were 81.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P80
Classification
1000
Street
9591 WAPLES ST

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).

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • JEFFREY ESSAKOW

    PRESIDENT & FOUNDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • VIRGINIA TINLEY

    CHIEF LEGACY OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • BOB BABBITT

    VICE PRESIDENT & FOUNDER

    Total calculated
    $84,816
    From this org
    $62,443
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,373
    Hours/week
    1

  • DEAN ROEPER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RICK KOZLOWSKI

    FOUNDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DANNY GABRIEL

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN PIZZI

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALAN SHANKEN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEFF JACOBS

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • ROGER QUARLES

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LOTTE TOFTDAHL

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID JOCHIM

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SCOTT STACKMAN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NICOLE LUDWIG

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID SAMSON

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TABI KING

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SWAN PAIK

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KRISTINE ENTWISTLE

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $194,055
    From this org
    $186,929
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,126
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $184,151
    Bonus
    $2,778
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,552
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,574
    Filer's total
    $194,055

  • LORRAINE HALL

    CHIEF ACCOUNTING OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $161,756
    From this org
    $142,201
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,555
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $139,423
    Bonus
    $2,778
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,393
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,162
    Filer's total
    $161,756

  • JEFF HOLBROOK TERMED 1225

    CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $228,526
    From this org
    $210,534
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,992
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $166,156
    Bonus
    $2,778
    Other
    $41,600
    Deferred
    $1,900
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,092
    Filer's total
    $228,526

  • LAUREN FRIEDMAN TERMED 0526

    CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $181,608
    From this org
    $154,301
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,307
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $151,523
    Bonus
    $2,778
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,686
    Nontaxable benefits
    $22,621
    Filer's total
    $181,608

  • PATRICK LAWRENCE

    CHIEF PROGRAMS OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $139,484
    From this org
    $134,176
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,308
    Hours/week
    45

  • DANIELLE SIMMONS

    CHIEF OF MARKETING

    Total calculated
    $148,331
    From this org
    $143,383
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,948
    Hours/week
    45

  • ADAM KLIPPER

    SR DIRECTORY NE REGION

    Total calculated
    $157,094
    From this org
    $156,313
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $781
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $156,313
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $781
    Filer's total
    $157,094

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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $12,831,092
    Expenses
    $13,794,130
    Contributions
    $14,520,086
    Grants paid
    $5,588,473
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $14,382,753
    Expenses
    $12,753,703
    Contributions
    $15,016,816
    Grants paid
    $4,854,965
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $16,660,187
    Expenses
    $15,094,719
    Contributions
    $17,578,813
    Grants paid
    $7,207,643
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $12,862,581
    Expenses
    $13,437,328
    Contributions
    $13,816,231
    Grants paid
    $6,103,823

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

Declared as related by

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 10 September 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.