California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA YARD SHARKS
CALIFORNIA YARD SHARKS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,085 to it, the largest being Arthur J Gallagher Foundation ($2,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $4k
What California Yard Sharks does
Mission
The goal of the ca yard sharks is to develop and show-case a strong group of team players who show passion for the gane and are willing to work as a team while also putting forth the individual effort necessary to play their best game. We believe in the fundamentals and strive to continually develop our players and refine their skills. We are committed to a positive coaching and player attitudes which brings confidence and loyalty on the field. Winning is great but it is not our sole objective. We still believe softball should be fun. We develop competent players desiring to play at the next level. We help prepare for the recruiting process and offer key opportunities to be seen by college coaches. Academics are a priority ans we stress this to our players. We are committed to playing clean, competitive ball through good practice habits, dedication and respect for others.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Supporting youth in the development of skills for softball and teaching the inprotache of sportsmanship and preperation for college level compition.
$2,607 spent100% of program spendingSupport youth in softball through exposure to college recruters at the softball nationals
Create a positive enviornment for youth to excell in softball
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $2,607.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $63k to $11k (−83%).
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.
100% of CALIFORNIA YARD SHARKS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% 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
Lance Oliver
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $1k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 CALIFORNIA YARD SHARKS’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
CALIFORNIA YARD SHARKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 92% — 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.
Where its funders are
CALIFORNIA YARD SHARKS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85 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
CALIFORNIA YARD SHARKS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CALIFORNIA YARD SHARKS
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA YARD SHARKS: 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 CALIFORNIA YARD SHARKS?
- CALIFORNIA YARD SHARKS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,085 to it, the largest being Arthur J Gallagher Foundation ($2,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA YARD SHARKS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,085 in grants to CALIFORNIA YARD SHARKS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA YARD SHARKS?
- Arthur J Gallagher Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA YARD SHARKS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), 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