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BUZZ LIGHTNING BASEBALL ACADEMY INC

BUZZ LIGHTNING BASEBALL ACADEMY INC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,000 to it, the largest being Enterprise Holdings Foundation ($3,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$164k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$3k
Net assets
$4k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Buzz Lightning Baseball Academy Inc does

Mission

Youth baseball advanced instruction and competition. We are dedicated to providing an environment for the advanced development of youth baseball players in order that they may achieve their dreams both on and off the field through competition, professional training and supervision.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Professionial baseball instruction for youth ages from 12-18. APPROXIMATELY 250 youth participated in the program with-20 different teams traveling to over 45 different tournaments throughout the year. Excelling to the point of winning a good percentage of tournaments and helping a lot of players secure college scholarships.

    $155,769 spent$164,334 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $155,769.

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 ($266k) Expenses 100 ($260k) Net assets 100 ($8k)2018 Revenue 52 ($138k) Expenses 48 ($125k) Net assets 258 ($21k)2019 Revenue 121 ($322k) Expenses 114 ($295k) Net assets 562 ($45k)2020 Revenue 72 ($191k) Expenses 88 ($227k) Net assets 103 ($8k)2021 Revenue 78 ($206k) Expenses 72 ($187k) Net assets 337 ($27k)2022 Revenue 79 ($211k) Expenses 86 ($225k) Net assets 166 ($13k)2023 Revenue 82 ($219k) Expenses 80 ($209k) Net assets 285 ($23k)2024 Revenue 62 ($164k) Expenses 71 ($183k) Net assets 49 ($4k)
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Revenue (62)Expenses (71)Net assets (49)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 $48k to $10k (−79%).

$8k
$21k
$48k
$10k
$28k
$13k
$23k
$4k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of BUZZ LIGHTNING BASEBALL ACADEMY INC’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. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’17
$13k
’18
$27k
’19
−$37k
’20
$19k
’21
−$14k
’22
$10k
’23
−$19k
’24
0.2
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.

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Listed33333336
Joined·+1+1+0+0+0+1+3
No longer listed·1100010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of BUZZ LIGHTNING BASEBALL ACADEMY 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.

Where its funders are

BUZZ LIGHTNING BASEBALL ACADEMY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.

MO

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

BUZZ LIGHTNING BASEBALL ACADEMY INC's revenue fell 38% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−12% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · bottom quartile

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

Organizations like BUZZ LIGHTNING BASEBALL ACADEMY INC

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In Texas

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BUZZ LIGHTNING BASEBALL ACADEMY INC?
BUZZ LIGHTNING BASEBALL ACADEMY INC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,000 to it, the largest being Enterprise Holdings Foundation ($3,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BUZZ LIGHTNING BASEBALL ACADEMY INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,000 in grants to BUZZ LIGHTNING BASEBALL ACADEMY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BUZZ LIGHTNING BASEBALL ACADEMY INC?
Enterprise Holdings Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BUZZ LIGHTNING BASEBALL ACADEMY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 1 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