California · Nonprofit
SANTA MONICA RUGBY CLUB
SANTA MONICA RUGBY CLUB (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,400 to it, the largest being JAMES K FERGUSON FOUNDATION INC ($1,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $197k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $270k
What Santa Monica Rugby Club does
Mission
Sponsorship and promotion of amateur rugby.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Facilitation and advancement of youth rugby. The club has numerous youth teams in multiple age divisions. We combined with other local rugby clubs in various age groups in order to field full teams. 2024-2025 season included players in co-ed u8, u10 and u12, boys u14, boys u16 & boys u18 all competing in our local southern california youth rugby league. In additional we had 7s teams at the boys u18 level in the summer season. Over 75% of our high school boys and some girls go on to play rugby in college, and many choose colleges that have rugby programs.
$7,362 spent5% of program spendingSponsorship and promotion of amateur adult rugby. In 2024-2025, the club fielded four adult teams: men - division two (one team), men - social team (one team), women - division one (one team) and women - division two (one team). The women's division one team advanced to national regionals in las vegas. Both the men's and women's teams had summer 7s teams.
$76,877 spent54% of program spendingEveryone plays regardless of their socioeconomic situation. We offered full and partial scholarships for dues as well as obtain donated gear for financially impacted players.
$51,307 spent36% of program spendingSponsorship and promotion of amateur rugby.
$6,031 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $141,577.
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 2023 to 2024, from $205k to $270k (+32%).
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: 2024 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of SANTA MONICA RUGBY CLUB’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. 1 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.
Board chair
Steven Johnson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $98 → $183.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 MONICA RUGBY CLUB’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 MONICA RUGBY CLUB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 83% · 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
SANTA MONICA RUGBY CLUB draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $810 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
SANTA MONICA RUGBY CLUB runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SANTA MONICA RUGBY CLUB
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SANTA MONICA RUGBY CLUB: 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 SANTA MONICA RUGBY CLUB?
- SANTA MONICA RUGBY CLUB (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,400 to it, the largest being JAMES K FERGUSON FOUNDATION INC ($1,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANTA MONICA RUGBY CLUB have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $3,400 in grants to SANTA MONICA RUGBY CLUB, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANTA MONICA RUGBY CLUB?
- JAMES K FERGUSON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANTA MONICA RUGBY CLUB 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 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