Swim-a thon fundraiser question

[Anonymous]

Does anyone on this board belong to a club that does a summer fundraiser in the form of a swim-a-thon? If so, how big is your club membership and about how much money do you raise?
Thanks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone on this board belong to a club that does a summer fundraiser in the form of a swim-a-thon? If so, how big is your club membership and about how much money do you raise?
Thanks

just a warning- USA swimming owns the phrase 'swim-a-thon' and several variations of it- if you do anything like this you have to give them a cut. We do something like this, but we call it something completely different. We don't raise that much money. We pick a different charity every year.

[Anonymous]

Summer team does it but for charity. Normally we raise 3-4 thousand dollars with a team of ~125.

[Anonymous]

Our summer team does one. We have approximately 175 kids on the team and average around $15,000 raised.

This is our second year and there are a lot of prizes and they recognize the kids who swam the most laps or raised the most money throughout the season, so it is a big deal to the kids.

Besides the registration, the team pays for everything. We don't pay for our banquet, breakfasts, pep rally supplies, etc. So we would rather have a tax deductible contribution then nickel and dime throughout the summer.

[Anonymous]

HS team does it for charity. I think they raised a few hundred $$ (very small team (< 20) and a lot of new swimmers who can't swim long distances.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone on this board belong to a club that does a summer fundraiser in the form of a swim-a-thon? If so, how big is your club membership and about how much money do you raise?
Thanks

just a warning- USA swimming owns the phrase 'swim-a-thon' and several variations of it- if you do anything like this you have to give them a cut. We do something like this, but we call it something completely different. We don't raise that much money. We pick a different charity every year.

Thanks for the heads up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Summer team does it but for charity. Normally we raise 3-4 thousand dollars with a team of ~125.

Thank you. Our team is probably a little bit smaller, but this would be an overall club fund fundraiser, not just for the team. I think we would be very happy to make $3-4k.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Summer team does it but for charity. Normally we raise 3-4 thousand dollars with a team of ~125.

Thank you. Our team is probably a little bit smaller, but this would be an overall club fund fundraiser, not just for the team. I think we would be very happy to make $3-4k.

Overall club fundraiser? Like the swim team is raising money for the pool? That seems odd, does the pool support the swim team (one budget)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Summer team does it but for charity. Normally we raise 3-4 thousand dollars with a team of ~125.

Thank you. Our team is probably a little bit smaller, but this would be an overall club fund fundraiser, not just for the team. I think we would be very happy to make $3-4k.

Fwiw, if the beneficiary was the pool which members already pay a significant amount of dues to instead of a charity I think we would raise significantly less.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our summer team does one. We have approximately 175 kids on the team and average around $15,000 raised.

This is our second year and there are a lot of prizes and they recognize the kids who swam the most laps or raised the most money throughout the season, so it is a big deal to the kids.

Besides the registration, the team pays for everything. We don't pay for our banquet, breakfasts, pep rally supplies, etc. So we would rather have a tax deductible contribution then nickel and dime throughout the summer.

Is this for a summer pool? Typically summer pools are classified as social clubs, 501c4 and contributions are not tax deductible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Summer team does it but for charity. Normally we raise 3-4 thousand dollars with a team of ~125.

Thank you. Our team is probably a little bit smaller, but this would be an overall club fund fundraiser, not just for the team. I think we would be very happy to make $3-4k.

Overall club fundraiser? Like the swim team is raising money for the pool? That seems odd, does the pool support the swim team (one budget)?

No. Anyone with the club would be raising funds for the club. It wouldn’t be swim team specific.

Separate budgets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our summer team does one. We have approximately 175 kids on the team and average around $15,000 raised.

This is our second year and there are a lot of prizes and they recognize the kids who swam the most laps or raised the most money throughout the season, so it is a big deal to the kids.

Besides the registration, the team pays for everything. We don't pay for our banquet, breakfasts, pep rally supplies, etc. So we would rather have a tax deductible contribution then nickel and dime throughout the summer.

Is this for a summer pool? Typically summer pools are classified as social clubs, 501c4 and contributions are not tax deductible.

OP here.
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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our summer team does one. We have approximately 175 kids on the team and average around $15,000 raised.

This is our second year and there are a lot of prizes and they recognize the kids who swam the most laps or raised the most money throughout the season, so it is a big deal to the kids.

Besides the registration, the team pays for everything. We don't pay for our banquet, breakfasts, pep rally supplies, etc. So we would rather have a tax deductible contribution then nickel and dime throughout the summer.

Is this for a summer pool? Typically summer pools are classified as social clubs, 501c4 and contributions are not tax deductible.

OP here.
+1

We have a boosters club to support our swim team. Our high school and summer team both have them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our summer team does one. We have approximately 175 kids on the team and average around $15,000 raised.

This is our second year and there are a lot of prizes and they recognize the kids who swam the most laps or raised the most money throughout the season, so it is a big deal to the kids.

Besides the registration, the team pays for everything. We don't pay for our banquet, breakfasts, pep rally supplies, etc. So we would rather have a tax deductible contribution then nickel and dime throughout the summer.

Is this for a summer pool? Typically summer pools are classified as social clubs, 501c4 and contributions are not tax deductible.

OP here.
+1

We have a boosters club to support our swim team. Our high school and summer team both have them.

Follow up - I thought every team pretty much had a boosters organization for fundraising????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Summer team does it but for charity. Normally we raise 3-4 thousand dollars with a team of ~125.

Thank you. Our team is probably a little bit smaller, but this would be an overall club fund fundraiser, not just for the team. I think we would be very happy to make $3-4k.

Fwiw, if the beneficiary was the pool which members already pay a significant amount of dues to instead of a charity I think we would raise significantly less.

Us too. Raising money for kids is one thing, for a club you are already paying big dues to every year, we would not make much.