California · Nonprofit
BAY AREA SCORES
BAY AREA SCORES (California) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,561,650 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,013,559). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Bay Area Scores does
Mission
America scores is a sports-based youth development program that inspires youth to lead healthy lives, be engaged students, and have the confidence and character to make a positive difference in the world. Our unique mix of soccer, poetry, and service-learning improves outcomes in physical health, academic engagement, and social-emotional well-being, with the goal of helping scores poet-athletes build healthy bodies, hearts, and minds.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Soccer program - the soccer program is lead by scores coach-mentors in the afterschool hours and on weekends. Both girls and boys engage in regular physical activity and learn about nutrition, teamwork, sportsmanship, and commitment. Our team-based approach instills camaraderie both on and off the field and supports whole child development through mentorship and team play. Scores provides all the equipment, curricula, and organizes weekly game days for participants and family members.
$3,781,753 spent56% of program spendingWriting workshops - the writing program has two main focus areas: poetry and service learning. The writing program is led by scores coach-mentors who help participants gain confidence in self-expression, writing, and public speaking. The service-learning program focuses on scores' teams identifying an issue of concern in their community and then taking collective action to make a positive change. The writing program meets one to two times per week and features special events like poetry slams, poetry contests, and celebrations of service-learning projects.
$1,971,522 spent29% of program spendingMiddle school and club teams programs - the middle school and club team program engages students in soccer and enrichment activities beyone the elementary school ages. The club program or independent football club (ifc) utilizes parent volunteers and coaches from the scores youth coaches academy (yca). Yca offers scores alumni job training and life skill development opportunities connected to their passion and their community.
$93,763 spent1% of program spendingSummer and winter programs - poet-athletes partner with various community organizations to provide health and literacy programming. Programs range from one-day to six-weeks camps, clinics, and tournaments.
$897,715 spent$1,147,504 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,744,753.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $1.1M to $2.4M (+112%).
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: 2017 15% · 2018 13% · 2019 11% · 2020 27% · 2021 20% · 2022 30% · 2023 29% · 2024 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of BAY AREA SCORES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Colin Schmidt
CEO & executive director
Board chair
Sam Fort
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $173k → $569k.
13 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 BAY AREA SCORES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 funders by total. 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
BAY AREA SCORES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
52% 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 BAY AREA SCORES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 20% · 2019 23% · 2020 64% · 2021 21% · 2022 18% · 2023 18% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of BAY AREA SCORES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
61% of BAY AREA SCORES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
BAY AREA SCORES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BAY AREA SCORES
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BAY AREA SCORES: 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 BAY AREA SCORES?
- BAY AREA SCORES (California) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,561,650 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,013,559). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BAY AREA SCORES have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $4,561,650 in grants to BAY AREA SCORES, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BAY AREA SCORES?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,013,559 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BAY AREA SCORES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 43 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