When are Bloomingdale Lightning FC tryouts?

By the calendar, its ECNL Regional League teams try out in May–June (Most clubs, most states), a window confirmed by two or more clubs' posted dates or parents' answers.

Does Bloomingdale Lightning FC offer financial aid?

Its own sources say so: scholarships on the club's site.

Where does Bloomingdale Lightning FC's money go?

Of what this club spends, about 86% to everything else, 14% to administration. From the club's own return, FY2025.

Bloomingdale Lightning FC

Bloomingdale, IL · ECNL Regional League (unconfirmed) · Regional Competitive

2026–27 prices, confirmed Sep 9, 2026 · community reported · Club website · What its return says

Tryouts: May–June

What this club fields

Priced cells link to the fee · read from the club site

	U-8	U-9	U-10	U-11	U-12	U-13	U-14	U-15	U-16	U-17	U-18	U-19
Boys	Fields U-10 to U-19; no price posted. Report one
Girls	Fields U-10 to U-18; no price posted. Report one
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Paying less, by the club's own sources

Offers financial aid — Scholarships on the club's site the page

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How much does Bloomingdale Lightning FC cost?

U-12

Regional Competitive · 2026-2027

Program fee not published

The club posts the charges below for this group but no club fee, registration or training fee, so we quote no annual estimate. Nothing is modeled on a tryout or tournament fee.

Posted fees

Lightning Club Package Uniform KitUniforms & Kit · One-time · added Sep 9, 2026

$450

Posted total, per year

$450

Optional

Fierce Uniform Package (U8 and under)One-time · added Sep 9, 2026

$175

Goalkeeper Uniform PackageOne-time · added Sep 9, 2026

$450

Club website: Bloomingdale Lightning FCView source· Last verified: Sep 9, 2026

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When are Bloomingdale Lightning FC tryouts?: By the calendar, its ECNL Regional League teams try out in May–June (Most clubs, most states), a window confirmed by two or more clubs' posted dates or parents' answers.
Does Bloomingdale Lightning FC offer financial aid?: Its own sources say so: scholarships on the club's site.
Where does Bloomingdale Lightning FC's money go?: Of what this club spends, about 86% to everything else, 14% to administration. From the club's own return, FY2025.

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Where does the money go?

Of what this club spends, about 86% to everything else, 14% to administration.

Read from the club's own filing, which lists what it spent by kind. The full split, year by year, is further down the page.

Source: the club's own return, FY2025 · Where the money goes →

Is the club on solid ground?

The club took in more than it spent last year. Its reserves would cover about 13 months of spending.

The year-by-year figures are further down the page.

Source: the club's own return, FY2025 · See the years →

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Financial transparency

IRS 990 · FY 2025

Based on public IRS tax filings for Bloomingdale Lightning FcVerified

Total Revenue

$138K

+68% YoY

From Families

$138K

Program fees + membership dues

Expenses

$97K

FY 2025

Est. Roster

~100

70–130 players

990-derived per-player cost · FY 2025

~$1,380Range: $1,062 – $1,972

Calculated by dividing 2025 program service revenue plus membership dues by estimated roster size. This is an approximation.

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No posted fees to compare against the filing.

Tax filing data from ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer·EIN: 320535315

Where the money goes

FY 2025 · from the return

What Bloomingdale Lightning FC reported spending, and what it kept, on its FY 2025 return. Pay is shown as a share, never by name.

Of every $100 the club spent

Administration$14 · $14K
Everything else$86 · $83K

Coaching and staff is salaries, officer pay, benefits and contracted coaches (Part IX lines 5–11). The club's own “other expense” lines are read by their description.

Year by year

Year	From families	Per player*	Surplus	Reserves
2020	$151K	~$1,511	−$48K	3.1 mo
2021	$146K	~$1,463	−$17K	2.6 mo
2022	$383K	~$3,828	+$30K	2.2 mo
2023	$128K	~$1,281	+$73K	29.6 mo
2024	$82K	~$821	−$76K	4.6 mo
2025	$138K	~$1,380	+$42K	12.7 mo

*Revenue from families divided by today's estimated roster (~100), so the column moves with the club's revenue, not its size. Reserves are net assets in months of that year's spending.

Revenue from families fell 9% from FY 2020 to FY 2025.

Every figure is a line on the club's own Form 990.Open the return

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