Virginia · Nonprofit
703 WARRIORS
703 WARRIORS (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,500 to it, the largest being ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $88k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $49k
What 703 Warriors does
Mission
To provide underserved youth with free access to holistic development programs that combine competitive soccer training with essential life skills education. The organization aims to break down systemic barriers by fostering leadership, resilience, and teamwork among children, empowering them to succeed both on and off the field while building stronger, more inclusive communities. Through our four core programs, we create opportunities for personal growth, mentorship, and community engagement, all at no cost to participants.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
703 Warriors served more than 350 underserved youth ages 6-12 across arlington and surrounding areas through free competitive soccer, youth development, fitness, and mentorship programming. Over 90% of participants qualify for free and reduced-price meals (farm).
$0 spentThe organization successfully built and operated a free boys travel soccer program, fielding 4 teams that trained three days per week for ten months and competed against established pay-to-play clubs across the region, including two teams earning first-place finishes at a maryland tournament.
$0 spentAlongside competitive success, 703 Warriors delivered six large-scale youth development days in partnership with organizations such as girls on the run and the travis manion foundation. The program mobilized 3,000+ volunteer hours and operated without paid coaching staff or premium facilities, demonstrating that high-quality outcomes are possible through community partnership, disciplined execution, and a low-overhead model designed for sustainability and equity.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $21k to $49k (+129%).
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.
100% of 703 WARRIORS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Anees Merzi
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 703 WARRIORS’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
703 WARRIORS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 703 WARRIORS.
“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
90% of 703 WARRIORS'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
703 WARRIORS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like 703 WARRIORS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
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.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds 703 WARRIORS?
- 703 WARRIORS (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,500 to it, the largest being ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does 703 WARRIORS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $24,500 in grants to 703 WARRIORS.
- Who is the largest funder of 703 WARRIORS?
- ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 703 WARRIORS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 3 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