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49er Rugby Foundation

49er Rugby Foundation (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,946 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($77,798). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$74k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$150k
Net assets
$33k
4/5 repeat funders
01What it does

What 49er Rugby Foundation does

Mission

We are an alumni based charity foundation formed to support the varsity rugby team at California State University Long Beach and its players students to provide them an opportunity of success during their time at the school and with the team. We formed the foundation to support the team with additional resources outside of what they receive from the universitys clubs rec program annual budget. With additional funding we can support with team equipment jerseys and gear as well as support the team with traveling to play other schools and also qualification for national tournaments at the end of the season. We also support the team and students with their bi-annual international playing tours providing financial support and scholarships when we are able to.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Provide the team with equipment uniforms gear league fees and referee fees tournament entry fees

    $30,212 spent
    45% of program spending
  2. Support the rugby club team with travel expenses transportation hotels banquet food and catering

    $16,023 spent
    24% of program spending
  3. Provide students players with scholarships to support school tuition books expenses

    $1,500 spent
    2% of program spending
  4. Additional team and club support with field and equipment maintenance additional team clothing gear award dinners and banquet reservations and events

    $11,350 spent
    17% of program spending
  5. Support and payment for team club coaches to support the players with training and expertise

    $7,400 spent
    11% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $66,485.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($99k) Expenses 100 ($88k) Net assets 100 ($25k)2025 Revenue 75 ($74k) Expenses 76 ($66k) Net assets 131 ($33k)
20242025
Revenue (75)Expenses (76)Net assets (131)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $25k to $33k (+31%).

$25k
$33k
20242025
Total assets

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of 49er Rugby Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,075 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$12k
’24
$8k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

David Aceves

Chief Executive Officer

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $14k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of 49er Rugby Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

49er Rugby Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

58% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund 49er Rugby Foundation.

52%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 98% · 2023 94% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

58% of 49er Rugby Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $64k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.

NY
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $86k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

49er Rugby Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−25% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds 49er Rugby Foundation?
49er Rugby Foundation (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,946 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($77,798). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does 49er Rugby Foundation have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $149,946 in grants to 49er Rugby Foundation, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of 49er Rugby Foundation?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $77,798 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like 49er Rugby Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing