Missouri · Nonprofit
ILLUSIONS SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION
ILLUSIONS SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $495,000 to it, the largest being YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($170,000). 3 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 FY2025
- $184k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $495k
- Net assets
- $139k
What Illusions Softball Association does
Mission
The corporation was formed under missouri law on 8/11/97 to teach, train, and educate amateur youth about playing junior olympic and olympic level competitive sports, primarily girls fastpitch softball and boys baseball. The organization is not required to file schedule b to report significant contributors as virtually all of the donations received during the year ended 9/30/25 came from tax exempt donor advised funds.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
During the 12 months ended 9/30/25, the corporation maintained 4 fast pitch softball teams, 10u, 13u 14u, and 18u serving approximately 75 girls in the metropolitan st louis area. The 10u team played 30 games, 13 team played 45 games, 14u team played 45 games and the 18u team played 51 games. All teams played a reduced number of games due to local excessive rain. The 18u team won 2 tournaments and played in a national tournament in nashville, tennessee finishing 4th out of 32 teamsthe 18u team honored its graduated seniors with a party after the season and presented each senior with a traditional gift for college use.
$0 spentCoaches, parents and players proudly carried on the organization's inspired tradition as a member of the st louis softball hall of fame, a recipient of the prestigious "jim farrell award of excellence". Illusions Softball Association was the first team ever inducted into the st louis softball hall of fame (hof).only 3 other individuals have been selected for this award in the 35 year history of the hall of fame. During the year 2025 ira bergman was inducted personally into the st louis softball hall of fame joining the illusions as a member. The illusions were very excited for him to be selected after 44 years of coaching.
$0 spentDuring 9/30/25 a 14u team was created and coached by a former player of the 18u team. During 9/30/25, another team 10u, was created coached by another former 18u player. Additionally, the 18u team benefited from 2 different volunteer coaches that previously played for the 18u team. These college girls worked with our players during various times within the season bringing their college level experiences to our high school players. For the 2025 spring/summer season.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2021 to 2022, from $84k to $172k (+104%).
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.
98% of ILLUSIONS SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $70k → $95k.
4 of 4 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 ILLUSIONS SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 funders by total. 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
ILLUSIONS SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 ILLUSIONS SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 100% · 2023 53% — 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
100% of ILLUSIONS SOFTBALL 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. $495k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
ILLUSIONS SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION has grown faster than half of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ILLUSIONS SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION?
- ILLUSIONS SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $495,000 to it, the largest being YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($170,000). 3 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 ILLUSIONS SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $495,000 in grants to ILLUSIONS SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ILLUSIONS SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION?
- YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $170,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ILLUSIONS SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 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