Wisconsin · Nonprofit
PLAYGROUND WARRIORS LTD
PLAYGROUND WARRIORS LTD (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,050 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($220,000). 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 FY2024
- $70k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $252k
- Net assets
- $21k
What Playground Warriors Ltd does
Mission
To promote and encourage continuing education by means of scholarships.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We have a total of 192 athletes enrolled in the program. We provide uniforms including footware, gym time, instruction, travel, and housing for our out of state events. Our goal continues to be to expose as many of our players as possible to division 1, ii, and iii programs.we have eleven girls and twelve boys from our class of 2022 who have received division I or division ii scholarships. Most, if not all of those athletes would never have had the exposure provided by our program. Total scholarships to date, since 1997 is 658.our website continues to be one of the best for organizations of our size and make-up.boys u10 10 girls u10 10boys u11 10 girls u11 10boys u12 9 girls u12 10boys u12 11 girls u12 10boys u13 10 girls u13 10boys u14 11 girls u14 10boys u15 11 girls u15 12boys u16 11 girls u16 12boys u16 11 girls u17 12boys u16 10boys u17 10 ---- ----- 114 96 ===== =====
$0 spent
The program 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 2020 to 2021, from $52k to $5k (−90%).
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 PLAYGROUND WARRIORS LTD’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.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Duane Wilson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $30k → $56k.
2 of 3 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 PLAYGROUND WARRIORS LTD’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
PLAYGROUND WARRIORS LTD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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
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 PLAYGROUND WARRIORS LTD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 90% — 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 PLAYGROUND WARRIORS LTD'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $251k 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.
Against its field
PLAYGROUND WARRIORS LTD's revenue fell 20% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like PLAYGROUND WARRIORS LTD
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PLAYGROUND WARRIORS LTD: 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 PLAYGROUND WARRIORS LTD?
- PLAYGROUND WARRIORS LTD (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,050 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($220,000). 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 PLAYGROUND WARRIORS LTD have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $252,050 in grants to PLAYGROUND WARRIORS LTD, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PLAYGROUND WARRIORS LTD?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $220,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PLAYGROUND WARRIORS LTD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 3 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