An entirely unpaid governing board every year on record — and a growing roster of paid coaching staff now eating up half of expenses. Layered on top: a Danish pro club's name licensed to its youth teams, and a management tie to the same Sporting umbrella behind Pateadores.
Every officer on Slammers FC's board — President, Secretary, and at-large members — has reported $0 compensation in every filed year. That's the cleanest governance pattern of any club in this project.
Slammers operates as a licensor to a network of affiliated "Slammers" teams, including a branding partnership tying its name to HB Køge, a Danish professional club, through apparel company Capelli Sport — plus a separate "Sporting Slammers FC" venture tied to the Ryan Lemmon Foundation and the same Sporting umbrella connected to Pateadores. None of that shows up on this nonprofit's own Form 990.
Fiscal year ends in April. Revenue has more than doubled since 2012, and paid staff now account for roughly half of all spending.
"Other salaries and wages" was $0 in every year through FY2021, then appeared suddenly at $1.33M in FY2022 and has climbed to $1.73M by FY2025 — roughly half of total expenses. This looks like a genuine shift from independent-contractor coaches to payrolled staff, not a red flag on its own.
FY2020 (the pandemic year) is the only real outlier: revenue held near $2.4M but expenses spiked to $3.07M, producing a $637,118 loss — the largest single-year loss on record for this club.
None of the following appear on Slammers Futbol Club's own Form 990 — they're separate entities and partnerships discovered through corporate registries and club-facing materials.
"Slammers FC HB Køge" licenses the name of a Danish professional club through apparel company Capelli Sport, which owns HB Køge. It's a branding and merchandising arrangement, not evidence that Slammers Futbol Club and the Danish club share ownership or finances.
A separate Irvine-based venture partnering Slammers-branded teams with the Ryan Lemmon Foundation, operating under the same "Sporting" umbrella (Sporting Club Management Company, Sporting California LLC) connected to Pateadores — see the Entity Map.
Slammers Futbol Club's own Form 990 shows a clean, unpaid board and a straightforward revenue-and-payroll story. The branding and management layers above sit outside that filing entirely — whether any revenue, licensing fees, or management payments flow between them and the nonprofit isn't disclosed anywhere public.
Unlike most clubs in this project, there's no shift to track here — the board has taken nothing since at least FY2015.
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