Maryland · Nonprofit
SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS
SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS (Maryland) receives grants from 140 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,593,233 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,646,819). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 140
- Grants received
- $9.6M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Soccer Without Borders does
Mission
The mission of Soccer Without Borders is to use soccer as a vehicle for positive change, providing under-served youth with a toolkit to overcome obstacles to growth, inclusion, and personal success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ran school year and summer, youth development programs for newcomer youth in the bay area, ca; baltimore, md; greeley and aurora, co; and greater boston and springfield, ma providing 4500 refugee, asylee, and immigrant youth with soccer, educational, and community activities through team programs, camps & clinics, leagues & tournaments.
$3,504,864 spent$1,862,164 earned by the program73% of program spendingHosted virtual and in-person coach trainings that served over 660 coaches directly (and another 540 indirectly), supported the growth of the sport-for development sector through innovative tools, trainings, and knowledge sharing, including participation and leadership in play proud, equal play effect, and switch the pitch.
$938,262 spent20% of program spendingRan year-round, youth development programs for underserved youth in granada, nicaragua and kampala, uganda, with a focus on girls' engagement, serving more than 3600 youth ages 5-20 with soccer, educational, and community activities through team programs, camps & clinics, leagues & tournaments.
$327,602 spentof which $33,758 as grants7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,770,728.
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 $3.1M to $4.3M (+40%).
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: 2017 22% · 2018 25% · 2019 28% · 2020 26% · 2021 45% · 2022 31% · 2023 53% · 2024 39% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% 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.
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
Jennifer Tepper
Executive director
Board chair
Erin Simons Cook
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 55 funders, grant income rose $373k → $1.3M.
17 of 140 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 140 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
SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left
64% 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 SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 12% · 2019 20% · 2020 12% · 2021 10% · 2022 13% · 2023 13% — 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.
How long its funders stay
49% of SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $65k on record.
- Department of State$65k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 9 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Swb Nicaragua Branch · disregarded
- Swb Uganda Branch · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS: 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 SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS?
- SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS (Maryland) receives grants from 140 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,593,233 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,646,819). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS have?
- IRS filings report 140 organizations giving $9,593,233 in grants to SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS, 73 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,646,819 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 140 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