A field report on Sporting California Inc — an Inland Empire club in the ECNL Girls Southwest — a 501(c)(3) that did not exist before 2021 and reported $4.2M in revenue by 2024. Built from all four of its Form 990 filings.
Sporting California Inc was granted tax-exempt status in March 2022. Its first filing (2021) showed $1.12M of revenue against only $312K of expenses. By 2024 it reported $4.19M of revenue and $3.17M in net assets — one of the fastest build-outs of any club in this project.
President Phillip Brown was paid $210,762 in 2024 — about 6% of the whole organization's expenses going to a single person — after reporting $0 in the three prior filings.
This is a short history because the organization is new. Every year on record is a surplus year, and the surpluses have been large — the club banked $3.17M in cumulative net income across its first four filings — its entire net-asset balance.
In 2021 the club spent only 28 cents of every dollar it raised, ending the year with $808K already in the bank — an unusually well-funded first year for a youth club.
Liabilities have never exceeded $14K. The organization carries almost no debt and about 0.9 years of expenses in reserve.
What the filings establish, and what they don't.
A standalone nonprofit — its Form 990 does not name a parent, a related organization, or a management company.
The “Sporting” name is used by several distinct Southern California soccer operations — among them Sporting California Sports Management and Sporting Slammers FC — and this project's entity map separately notes a “Sporting California LLC” tied to former Pateadores leadership. Whether Sporting California Inc is connected to any of those is not something the public filings settle; on paper it stands alone.
For its first three filings the club reported $0 to all officers. In 2024 that changed — the president to $210,762, the treasurer to $73,590, the secretary to $16,000.
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