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GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH ATHLETICS LEARNING AND SERVICE - GOALS
GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH ATHLETICS LEARNING AND SERVICE - GOALS (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,866,236 to it, the largest being THE EISNER FOUNDATION INC ($975,411). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Growth Opportunities Through Athletics Learning and Service - Goals does
Mission
Growth opportunities through athletics, learning and service (goals) is devoted to removal of barriers so that less privileged children may freely enjoy organized sports, access quality education, and participate in community service projects. The organization creates after school and weekend programs for youths built around athletics, learning and service enrichment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Goals operates over 20 enrichment after school and summer programs for youth ages 6 to 19 years of age. All programs are offered free of charge in specifically targeted disadvantaged communities. The programs operate under three fundamental themes of youth development in athletics, learning enrichment and community service to help others.during the current fiscal year goals received approximately $359,040 in donated services and $857,000 in donated use of facilities from local cities, school districts and businesses in support of programs. A brief synopsis of major goals programs operative during fy 9/30/2025goals for valadez: placentia yorba linda school district. This program operates monday-friday throughout the school year (late august through the following mid-june). Goals provides a blend of all free services featuring daily organized sports programs, homework help to assure all school requirements are met, and weekly field trips for general enrichment. Program youth participation averaged in the 90-120 range and this met state and local expectations for solid "ases" involvement figures for the full program year. Total (duplicate counts) youth served = 18,000. Goals for oak…
$821,652 spent$1,139,957 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $821,652.
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.
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 $8.3M to $5.6M (−33%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2018 10% · 2019 10% · 2020 8% · 2021 67% · 2022 39% · 2023 42% · 2024 42% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH ATHLETICS LEARNING AND SERVICE - GOALS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Dave Wilk
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $351k → $150k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH ATHLETICS LEARNING AND SERVICE - GOALS’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
GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH ATHLETICS LEARNING AND SERVICE - GOALS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
34% 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 GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH ATHLETICS LEARNING AND SERVICE - GOALS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 52% · 2019 62% · 2020 88% · 2021 88% · 2022 91% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
33% of GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH ATHLETICS LEARNING AND SERVICE - GOALS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 22% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH ATHLETICS LEARNING AND SERVICE - GOALS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $341k 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
GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH ATHLETICS LEARNING AND SERVICE - GOALS's revenue fell 77% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH ATHLETICS LEARNING AND SERVICE - GOALS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $198k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$198k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH ATHLETICS LEARNING AND SERVICE - GOALS
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.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Anaheim Community Support Corp · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH ATHLETICS LEARNING AND SERVICE - GOALS?
- GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH ATHLETICS LEARNING AND SERVICE - GOALS (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,866,236 to it, the largest being THE EISNER FOUNDATION INC ($975,411). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH ATHLETICS LEARNING AND SERVICE - GOALS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,866,236 in grants to GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH ATHLETICS LEARNING AND SERVICE - GOALS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH ATHLETICS LEARNING AND SERVICE - GOALS?
- THE EISNER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $975,411 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH ATHLETICS LEARNING AND SERVICE - GOALS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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