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The Beloit Gridiron Club

The Beloit Gridiron Club (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,500 to it, the largest being THE JIM AND CHERYL CALDWELL FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$8k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$33k
Net assets
$4k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What The Beloit Gridiron Club does

Mission

We provide our athletes and coaches with equipment to safely field a team and to properly coach and teach athletes. We feed our team every week to provide nourishment and team bonding. We support the team when funds are needed to provide safety to the players and coaches.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Team Gear - 100 Athletes are provided travel gear and team t-shirts. This also includes coaching gear for 10 coaches. Team Equipment - This entails helmets shoulder pads team socks girdles jerseys a camera and electronics for scouting and filming and paint for the locker room to provide for 100 athletes

    $14,689 spent
    63% of program spending
  2. This the total cost to run and operate the golf outing that includes green fees and meals as well as prizes for 120 people.

    $5,109 spent
    22% of program spending
  3. Team Meals - These are gameday meals as well as snack and food throughout the year to help our underprivileged youth get the nutrition necessary in season and in out of season workouts. This entails 100 athletes and coaches

    $2,251 spent
    10% of program spending
  4. We provide a team website to promote the team and events we run raffles to promote the program and raise funds we have pay a music fee for gameday and weight room music we use postage to ship thank you letters.

    $1,370 spent
    6% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $23,419.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($61k) Expenses 100 ($53k) Net assets 100 ($10k)2024 Revenue 71 ($43k) Expenses 96 ($51k) Net assets 22 ($2k)2025 Revenue 122 ($74k) Expenses 105 ($56k) Net assets 199 ($20k)2026 Revenue 14 ($8k) Expenses 45 ($24k) Net assets 44 ($4k)
2023202420252026
Revenue (14)Expenses (45)Net assets (44)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2k to $20k (+806%).

$10k
$2k
$20k
$4k
2023202420252026
Total assets

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.

2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of The Beloit Gridiron Club’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,075 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’23
−$8k
’24
$18k
’25
−$15k
’26
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of The Beloit Gridiron 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

The Beloit Gridiron Club leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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

62%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

The Beloit Gridiron Club draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 2 states in all.

PA
NC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

The Beloit Gridiron Club's revenue fell 86% between 2023 and 2026.

Operating margin−181% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−48% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 433 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2026

Organizations like The Beloit Gridiron Club

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In Wisconsin

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Beloit Gridiron Club?
The Beloit Gridiron Club (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,500 to it, the largest being THE JIM AND CHERYL CALDWELL FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Beloit Gridiron Club have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $32,500 in grants to The Beloit Gridiron Club, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Beloit Gridiron Club?
THE JIM AND CHERYL CALDWELL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Beloit Gridiron Club 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 FY2026 (financials across 2023–2026), and the filings of 2 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