Special Olympics Inc.

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2010 to Dec 31, 2010

Signed

Aug 11, 2011

Return Version

2010v3.4

Gross Receipts

$107,270,963

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Sports Training and Competition: The Special Olympics movement grew to providing nearly 50,000 competitions around the world in the year, about 136 a day. The Movement added 315,000 new athletes and grew to more than 3.7 million athletes competing in more than 170 countries. The Asia Pacific Region led the Movement with a 12.9 percent growth rate, while the East Asia region is the first to have more than 1 million athletes. Throughout the world over 275,000 coaches provided support and guidance to Special Olympics athletes and we saw a strong 12.7 percent growth rate in the number of coaches resulting in an improved athlete-to-coach ratio from 14.0 in 2009 to 13.6 athletes for every coach in 2010. The Healthy Athletes program conducted 929 screening events in 63 countries including first time countries such as Bangladesh, Honduras, Samoa, Sri Lanka and Timor Leste. In seven months, five major Regional Games took place in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Lincoln, Nebraska; Warsaw, Poland; Fuzhou, China; and Damascus, Syria. Nearly 9,000 athletes, more than 9,000 family members and over 17,000 volunteers participated in these various Games, and tens of thousands of spectators. Each of the Games also shared many of the programmatic areas of Special Olympics including Healthy Athletes and youth and schools activities. Special Olympics also held the first-ever Unity Cup at the FIFA World Cup where athletes with and without intellectual disabilities took to the pitch right before one of the quarter match games. Sixteen Special Olympics athletes from 24 countries worldwide participated in this event. Throughout the year, preparations took place for the 2011 World Summer Games in Athens, Greece which including a test Games event where about 1,600 athletes, coaches and escorts from 20 countries participated.

Activity 3

Public Education and Communications: Special Olympics is committed to public awareness of intellectual disabilities and means to address barriers that persons with intellectual disabilities face. Our awareness campaign extends to include "Spread the word to end the word" activities throughout the United States and globally with an annual campaign day and ongoing communications via the internet and social media sites.

Filer

EIN

52-0889518