Washington · Nonprofit
RAT CITY ROLLER DERBY
RAT CITY ROLLER DERBY (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,531 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($22,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $211k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $41k
- Net assets
- $111k
What Rat City Roller Derby does
Mission
The corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, educational and the fostering of national/international amateur sports competition purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended, including but not limited to the following: a. To advance the sport of flat track roller derby in the city of seattle, nationally, and internationally, maintain a competitive athletic program, provide quality sports entertainment for our fans, and make a positive impact in our community, through community outreach, athletic training, national and international competition, and open opportunity for all who are willing to commit themselves toward the advancement of these goals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Promoting roller derby with quality sports entertainment:we actively promote the sport of roller derby through various initiatives. This includes organizing roller derby clinics, collaborating on community events, and facilitating derby games at a local and international level open to the public for viewing. By promoting roller derby, we aim to increase awareness and participation in the sport, fostering a sense of community among roller derby enthusiasts and encouraging new talent to join our league. This program generates revenue through ticket sales, merchandise, and concessions, which helps sustain our league and fund our other program services. It also serves as a platform for promoting roller derby and engaging with our community.in addition to being public, the games are broadcast live and later made available on youtube. Many local and international derby community individuals participate in or watch our annual events. Live screening and archived access on demand increases accessibility to the sport. Videos with league skaters amass from a couple thousand for home events and some international games garnering over 22k views. We interact with our community using an emailed…
$163,261 spentof which $100 as grants$128,416 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $163,261.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $92k to $124k (+34%).
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.
39% of RAT CITY ROLLER DERBY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $102 → $44.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 RAT CITY ROLLER DERBY’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
RAT CITY ROLLER DERBY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 RAT CITY ROLLER DERBY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 RAT CITY ROLLER DERBY's grant income comes from Washington funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k 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
RAT CITY ROLLER DERBY has grown faster than three-quarters 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
Organizations like RAT CITY ROLLER DERBY
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RAT CITY ROLLER DERBY: 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 RAT CITY ROLLER DERBY?
- RAT CITY ROLLER DERBY (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,531 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($22,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RAT CITY ROLLER DERBY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $40,531 in grants to RAT CITY ROLLER DERBY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RAT CITY ROLLER DERBY?
- ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $22,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RAT CITY ROLLER DERBY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2023–2025), 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