Vanguards Football Boosters

Analysis

Vanguards Football Boosters is a registered charity in United States, based in Orange, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation and sports, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Vanguards Football Boosters reported income of $212k and spending of $225k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $346k to $212k (-39%), an average of -22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 110% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Vanguards Football Boosters sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile, and in the 57th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Harvard Athletic Association Inc ($212k), TCR Youth Baseball Association ($212k) and Lanier High School TD Club Inc ($212k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 67% and program service revenue 6.6% of the total. At year end it held assets of $46k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $46k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.