California · Nonprofit
SANTA CRUZ BREAKERS ACADEMY INC
SANTA CRUZ BREAKERS ACADEMY INC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $290,255 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,000). 4 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
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $290k
- Net assets
- $-969673
What Santa Cruz Breakers Academy Inc does
Mission
To provide student-athletes with opportunities to enhance their athletic performance, academic achievement, and healthy life choices through participation in the us soccer development academy program and the uslpdl. Its ultimate goal is to promote student-athletes to the next level: college soccer, national teams, major league soccer and international competition.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Breakers fc is based in northern california & participates in the mls next program & the x2 league. The mls next program is the highest level of soccer in the united states of america & canada. The x2 league is the highest level of soccer in northern california & it is a second tier level for only those clubs, like breakers fc, that participates in the mls next program.breakers fc is a founding member of both organizations, mls next & x2, and provides the highest level of soccer for u11-u19 boys. Nearly 200 players playing u11-u19 participate in this year's program. We have qualified professional coaches with ussf & uefa coaching licenses, as required by the mls next organization, governed by the mls.the mls next teams are required to travel to other states in the us and also to canada, in order to compete in the mls next program. Our players are scouted by ussf scouts, mls clubs' scouts, usl clubs' scouts, liga mx scouts, european scouts & us college & universities scouts. Most of our players progress on to play in colleges & universities, many with soccer scholarships. Some of our players also have progressed on to professional clubs, like the san jose earthquakes or monterey…
$1,160,860 spent$318,117 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,160,860.
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 $6k to $709k (+12445%).
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.
76% of SANTA CRUZ BREAKERS ACADEMY INC’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. 5 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
Nisa Saveljic
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $62k.
5 of 5 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 SANTA CRUZ BREAKERS ACADEMY INC’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
SANTA CRUZ BREAKERS ACADEMY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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 SANTA CRUZ BREAKERS ACADEMY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 60% — 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 SANTA CRUZ BREAKERS ACADEMY INC'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. $290k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
SANTA CRUZ BREAKERS ACADEMY INC has grown faster than half of the 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SANTA CRUZ BREAKERS ACADEMY INC?
- SANTA CRUZ BREAKERS ACADEMY INC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $290,255 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,000). 4 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 SANTA CRUZ BREAKERS ACADEMY INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $290,255 in grants to SANTA CRUZ BREAKERS ACADEMY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANTA CRUZ BREAKERS ACADEMY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANTA CRUZ BREAKERS ACADEMY INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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