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BULLDOG FOOTBALL AND CHEER ASSOCIATION

BULLDOG FOOTBALL AND CHEER ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,233 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($14,950). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$326k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
$123k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Bulldog Football and Cheer Association does

Mission

The mission is to help form and develop the young boys and girls skills in football and cheerleading. This is done by emphasizing values and skills such as leadership, self-discipline and teamwork.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The orgination's goal is to develop young student athletes and is focused on team building, teaching proper technique and fundamentals of tackle football and cheer in a supervised and safe environment. Members will develop the required skills to enable them to competed and succeed in a high school athletic environment. This is done by emphasizing the development of life skills and core values such as discipline, friendship, leadership, sportsmanship and the importance of scholastic achievement. The orginazation will follow the pop warner football league rules and regulations.

    $270,911 spent$321,195 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $270,911.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($68k) Expenses 100 ($72k) Net assets 100 ($11k)2020 Revenue 28 ($19k) Expenses 35 ($25k) Net assets 42 ($5k)2021 Revenue 150 ($102k) Expenses 93 ($67k) Net assets 363 ($40k)2022 Revenue 326 ($222k) Expenses 299 ($216k) Net assets 418 ($46k)2023 Revenue 359 ($245k) Expenses 271 ($195k) Net assets 866 ($95k)2024 Revenue 479 ($326k) Expenses 414 ($298k) Net assets 1120 ($123k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (479)Expenses (414)Net assets (1120)Peer revenue range

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 $46k to $95k (+107%).

$11k
$5k
$40k
$46k
$95k
$123k
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 9% · 2023 3% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

2% of BULLDOG FOOTBALL AND CHEER ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$4k
’19
−$6k
’20
$35k
’21
$6k
’22
$49k
’23
$28k
’24
4.9
months of
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.

2019202220232024
Listed9768
Joined··+3+3
No longer listed··41
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $72 → $15k.

Funder
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
2

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 BULLDOG FOOTBALL AND CHEER ASSOCIATION’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

BULLDOG FOOTBALL AND CHEER ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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

100% 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 BULLDOG FOOTBALL AND CHEER ASSOCIATION.

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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

100% of BULLDOG FOOTBALL AND CHEER ASSOCIATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BULLDOG FOOTBALL AND CHEER ASSOCIATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve4.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)37% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 4%Fundraising 5%

Governance

9
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds BULLDOG FOOTBALL AND CHEER ASSOCIATION?
BULLDOG FOOTBALL AND CHEER ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,233 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($14,950). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BULLDOG FOOTBALL AND CHEER ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $15,233 in grants to BULLDOG FOOTBALL AND CHEER ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BULLDOG FOOTBALL AND CHEER ASSOCIATION?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $14,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BULLDOG FOOTBALL AND CHEER ASSOCIATION find more funders?
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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 2019–2024), and the filings of 2 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