A field report on Beach Futbol Club of the South Bay — ECNL and Girls Academy in the Southwest — built from fifteen years of its own IRS Form 990 filings, fiscal years ending June 2011 through June 2025.
Beach FC has filed a Form 990 every year since 2011. Revenue went from $930K to $7.72M over that span — roughly eight times larger — with a surplus in all but four years — and only ever a small one before FY2025. The club now runs about 1,500 families across the beach cities from Long Beach to Palos Verdes.
The newest filing shows a $483K deficit on $7.72M of revenue — the first six-figure loss year in the club's filed history (small deficits appeared in FY2011, FY2014 and a near-breakeven FY2019) — and net assets fell from $2.55M to $2.07M in a single year, even as reported pay to the club's leadership kept climbing.
One quirk worth knowing before you read the chart: Beach FC reports almost all of its revenue as “contributions and grants,” not “program service revenue” — the opposite of how most clubs in this project classify player and team fees.
The biggest jumps came in FY2015 (+58%) and FY2021 (+45%). From FY2020 to FY2025 revenue roughly doubled, $3.60M to $7.72M.
Expenses grew faster than revenue in FY2023, FY2024 and FY2025. By FY2025 the club spent $1.06 for every $1.00 it took in and drew down roughly $483K of reserves.
Beach FC files as a single 501(c)(3). No for-profit sibling company turned up in a search of California business records for this club. Two things still stand out in the filings themselves.
Most clubs in this project run an all-volunteer board. Beach FC's President and Treasurer are paid — $32,000 and $38,000 respectively in the FY2025 filing, up from $30,000 and $28,000 in FY2023. Small relative to the budget, but a different model from a purely volunteer governing board.
Beach FC reports on the order of 94–96% of revenue as contributions and grants rather than program service revenue. Youth clubs that charge mandatory registration and team fees more commonly book that money as program service revenue; the classification affects how a nonprofit's public-support math works, though it does not change the total dollars collected.
Where the payroll sits. The FY2025 filing lists eight “key employees” — the club's directors of coaching and program staff — each earning between $126,000 and $205,087, plus the two paid officers. That is roughly $1.29M in reported compensation to the ten people the filing names, before the rest of the coaching staff.
Reported compensation to the officers and key employees the filing names. The top individual figure rose every year shown — $176,000 in FY2023 to $205,087 in FY2025 — through the same stretch the club moved from surplus to a $483K loss.
| Fiscal Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Income | Officer + Key-Emp. Comp | Other Salaries | Total Assets | Total Liab. | Net Assets |
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