A community soccer league that grew from $134K to $3.6M in revenue over 13 years — and, in September 2024, got a brand-new for-profit LLC sibling sharing a near-identical name and a board member with the nonprofit itself.
Rebels SC files its taxes under a different name: Rebel Soccer League, EIN 33-0625910, tax-exempt since 2001, out of Chula Vista. On September 26, 2024, a for-profit entity with an almost identical name — Rebels San Diego Soccer Club, LLC — was born. One of its three managers, Abel Martinez, also sits as Secretary on the nonprofit's board.
What the new company actually does — take over billing, run the club's Carlsbad-to-Central-County affiliate network, something else entirely — hasn't surfaced anywhere public yet. We'll update this page when it does.
Rebel Soccer League's revenue has grown almost every single year since its earliest filed return.
Revenue rose in 12 of the last 13 years, from $134K in 2011 to $3.62M in 2024 — a 27x increase, tracking the club's growth into a multi-campus network.
Every single year on record, 100% of revenue is booked as "contributions" — zero program service revenue, which is strange for a club charging player registration fees. Salaries and wages sit at $0 in nearly every year, too, despite multi-million-dollar revenue. It might just be how the league keeps its books. It's still the biggest outlier of any club in this project.
Confirmed via California Secretary of State filings and cross-referenced against the nonprofit's own Form 990 officer list.
Abel Martinez is listed as a manager of this LLC and also serves as Secretary of Rebel Soccer League's nonprofit board, per the FY2024 return filed June 2025. Steve Contreras (President) and Lisa Arizpe (Treasurer), the other two nonprofit officers, don't appear anywhere on the LLC.
An out-of-state registered agent — VCorp, based in Monsey, NY — isn't itself unusual; plenty of small companies use one for privacy or convenience. What stands out is the timing, one filing cycle after years of steady nonprofit growth, and the one name that shows up on both sides.
It's a smaller, earlier-stage version of the pattern at City SC, where four nonprofit "Directors" turned out to be running a for-profit LLC that eventually absorbed their pay entirely. This LLC is brand new — nothing yet shows money or compensation actually moving between the two entities. Worth another look once the nonprofit's next return is filed.
Board officers have been unpaid in most years, with small stipends appearing intermittently.
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