Skip to content

Illinois · Nonprofit

BULLDOG YOUTH SPORTS NFP

BULLDOG YOUTH SPORTS NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,697 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($38,224). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$298k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$48k
Net assets
$158k
4/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 41%
01What it does

What Bulldog Youth Sports Nfp does

Mission

Create a safe and instructional environment for young athletes to learn fundamental skills to participate in football, cheer, and lacrosse with a focus on the development of individual skills, teamwork, and understanding of good sportsmanship.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Foster a sense of pride and unity within the community by encouraging support of a single organization. Support the varying skill and maturity levels of all athletes by offering multiple levels of football, cheer and lacrosse in our program. Instill a sense of motivation, drive and desire to be the best athlete possible. Create a desire to win without sacrificing an individuals development or well-being.

    $233,818 spentof which $2,000 as grants$233,774 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $233,818.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($109k) Expenses 100 ($112k) Net assets 100 ($104k)2018 Revenue 119 ($130k) Expenses 97 ($109k) Net assets 120 ($126k)2019 Revenue 176 ($192k) Expenses 1 ($2k) Net assets 129 ($135k)2020 Revenue 28 ($31k) Expenses 63 ($71k) Net assets 90 ($94k)2021 Revenue 129 ($140k) Expenses 112 ($125k) Net assets 105 ($109k)2022 Revenue 174 ($190k) Expenses 144 ($162k) Net assets 133 ($139k)2023 Revenue 246 ($269k) Expenses 243 ($272k) Net assets 130 ($136k)2024 Revenue 291 ($317k) Expenses 263 ($296k) Net assets 151 ($158k)2025 Revenue 273 ($298k) Expenses 231 ($259k) Net assets 151 ($158k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (273)Expenses (231)Net assets (151)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 2019 to 2020, from $135k to $94k (−30%).

$104k
$126k
$135k
$94k
$109k
$139k
$136k
$158k
$158k
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

17% of BULLDOG YOUTH SPORTS NFP’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’17
$21k
’18
$191k
’19
−$40k
’20
$15k
’21
$28k
’22
−$3k
’23
$22k
’24
$39k
’25
3.4
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.

20192022202320242025
Listed1313123330
Joined··+12+22+5
No longer listed··1318
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $11k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 YOUTH SPORTS NFP’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 YOUTH SPORTS NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% 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

80% 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 YOUTH SPORTS NFP.

80%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 86% · 2021 98% · 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

80% of BULLDOG YOUTH SPORTS NFP'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 $9k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from Illinois funders.

IL
NY

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’21
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k 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 YOUTH SPORTS NFP runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve3.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like BULLDOG YOUTH SPORTS NFP

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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

31
board members
100%
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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BULLDOG YOUTH SPORTS NFP: 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds BULLDOG YOUTH SPORTS NFP?
BULLDOG YOUTH SPORTS NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,697 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($38,224). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BULLDOG YOUTH SPORTS NFP have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $47,697 in grants to BULLDOG YOUTH SPORTS NFP, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BULLDOG YOUTH SPORTS NFP?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $38,224 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BULLDOG YOUTH SPORTS NFP find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

Play a game about who funds Bulldog Youth Sports Nfp →

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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