A Local Swimming Committee (LSC) in Texas has announced a program to help financially support their memberships during the nationwide coronavirus shutdown.
North Texas Swimming, which serves the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex north to the Oklahoma border and East to the Louisiana border, is 1 of 5 LSCs in the state of Texas.
The state of Texas has 12,186 confirmed coronavirus cases as of publishing with 248 COVID-19 caused deaths.
North Texas Swimming
On April 7th, the North Texas Swimming LSC approved a similar program to refund $20 per athlete member on their team. Using a streamlined process for the refund, North Texas Swimming required submission of a one-page acknowledgment and information sheet and a W-9 tax form from clubs. Payments were made immediately.
That plan distributed approximately $140,000 to North Texas Swimming member clubs.
All nonprofit clubs that are exempt from tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code will qualify for this refund. The for-profit clubs that provide the same type of services as do the nonprofit members of North Texas Swimming in fulfilling its mission and service to the athletes will also qualify.
Other LSCs
Several other LSCs have launched programs to help their membership clubs. The Florida Gold Coast LSC, for example, will award grants to certain clubs that meet need criteria and have exhausted other options for funding. The Wisconsin LSC took a different approach and purchased gap insurance to allow their clubs to hold dryland training workouts remotely and continue to collect fees from their members.
Sierra Nevada Swimming also launched an ’emergency grant’ program that is awarding a similar $20 per registered swimmer fee, though with a slightly different structure.
Great job North Texas!
where is the money from USA Swimming? We pay $60 plus for membership to them and pay $15 plus to our LSC and the LSC’s are the only ones trying to help save these clubs. I will leave it there because we all know what is happening. I am sure our dues will go up next year too, the scheduled $2.00.
easy to say “pay everyone”… take a look at your own budget, see where you could “give money back” to your team members… not an easy proposal. it’s always easier to look at “someone else’s budget” than your own.
here’s USA swimming’s budget from a year or two ago for an example… https://www.usaswimming.org/docs/default-source/usas-convention/2017-usas-convention/business-plan-summary-2017-2020-bod.pdf
look at your LSC, yes, a small portion comes from membership dues (small slice compared to USA Swimming’s take)… the LSC typically is generating revenue based on splash fees (folks running meets)… and every LSC is different, some have tons of overhead (staff, programming, travel reimbursements, etc), and some run lean (basically just running the LSC champ meets, and being… Read more »
Illinois Swimming? Simple program here.