Colorado · Nonprofit
BALON USA
BALON USA (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $667,695 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($205,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $383k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $668k
- Net assets
- $199k
What Balon USA does
Mission
The mission of Balon USA is to provide high-quality, low-cost, after-school soccer opportunities for students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Balon USA provided 8 weeks of soccer programming to 1,462 students during the spring and fall seasons. Teams of 3rd-5th grade children, each with 12-18 members, practiced soccer after school twice a week and played games on saturdays. There were 48 teams in spring and 44 teams in fall serving 1,462 students total. Balon USA served 60 students in thornton with 4 weeks futsal soccer during winter. Futsal is played on an indoor basketball court with a special ball. 248 parents participated in one of our 8 social emotional workshops in fall titled positive play:tips for supporting your child in youth sports. 125 players participated in one of 4 spring workshops called the power of teamwork. All workshops were presented by local psychologists and social workers.
$310,230 spent$57,780 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $310,230.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $65k to $140k (+115%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 31% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of BALON USA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
German Zarate-Bohorquez
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $41k → $244k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 BALON USA’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
BALON USA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
60% 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 BALON USA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 85% · 2021 54% · 2022 59% · 2023 31% — 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
95% of BALON USA's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $259k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BALON USA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BALON USA
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BALON USA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BALON USA?
- BALON USA (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $667,695 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($205,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BALON USA have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $667,695 in grants to BALON USA, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BALON USA?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $205,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BALON USA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 9 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