Connecticut · Nonprofit
BERLIN MIDGET FOOTBALL AND CHEERLEADING ASSOCIATION INC
BERLIN MIDGET FOOTBALL AND CHEERLEADING ASSOCIATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,539 to it, the largest being Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ($18,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $140k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $77k
What Berlin Midget Football and Cheerleading Association Inc does
Mission
To provide a safe and structured learning environment to teach the fundamentals of the sports of football and cheerleading as well as develop social and team skills for the participants. Through this active participation, berlin youth football & cheer helps develop fundamental values and skill sets that young people will grow to use throughout their lives on and off the field.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
To provide a safe and structured learning environment to teach the fundamentals of the sports of fottball and cheerleading as well as develop social and team skills for the participants. Through this active participation, berlin youth football & cheer helps develop fundamental values and skill sets that young people will grow to use throughout their lives on and off the field.
Clinics with fees associated
$114,715 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $114,715.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $51k to $77k (+52%).
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.
34% of BERLIN MIDGET FOOTBALL AND CHEERLEADING ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $18 → $21.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 BERLIN MIDGET FOOTBALL AND CHEERLEADING ASSOCIATION INC’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
BERLIN MIDGET FOOTBALL AND CHEERLEADING ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 BERLIN MIDGET FOOTBALL AND CHEERLEADING ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
BERLIN MIDGET FOOTBALL AND CHEERLEADING ASSOCIATION INC draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39 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
BERLIN MIDGET FOOTBALL AND CHEERLEADING ASSOCIATION INC has grown faster than half 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 BERLIN MIDGET FOOTBALL AND CHEERLEADING ASSOCIATION INC
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BERLIN MIDGET FOOTBALL AND CHEERLEADING ASSOCIATION INC: 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 BERLIN MIDGET FOOTBALL AND CHEERLEADING ASSOCIATION INC?
- BERLIN MIDGET FOOTBALL AND CHEERLEADING ASSOCIATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,539 to it, the largest being Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ($18,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BERLIN MIDGET FOOTBALL AND CHEERLEADING ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $19,539 in grants to BERLIN MIDGET FOOTBALL AND CHEERLEADING ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BERLIN MIDGET FOOTBALL AND CHEERLEADING ASSOCIATION INC?
- Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is the largest funder on record, with $18,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BERLIN MIDGET FOOTBALL AND CHEERLEADING ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 4 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