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Every dollar
stays in Hamilton.

Give once, sponsor year-round, donate goods, or buy a banquet ticket. The Boosters are a registered 501(c)(3) and the money never leaves this district.

Make a gift Business sponsorship

Ways to give

Pick a lane

One time

Make a gift

Any amount. Point it at a sport, or let the board put it where it’s needed most.

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Business

Sponsor

The gym screens, the website, and the season’s events. Packages from $600.

See the packages →
In kind

Donate goods or services

Materials, labor, auction items. Recognized at fair-market value, same as cash.

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In the works

One sponsorship,
all season

The board is building a single year-round sponsorship framework to replace the separate banner drives, capital campaigns and one-off asks — one conversation a year instead of five. It goes to the board this fall.

Want in early? Tell us what you have in mind and we will come back to you the moment the framework is adopted. Businesses who ask first get first pick of a category.
Start a conversation See what is available now

New this year

Own every screen
in the gym

The scorer’s table and the entrance TVs run one loop, every home event. Your ad plays on all of them. One business per category.

VolleyballBasketballWrestlingCompetitive cheerUnified sportsTournaments
Starter
$600

Per year · renewable

  • 20-second still ad, every other loop
  • Professional design
  • Category held while active
  • Website listing
Still Ad · Best value
$2,500

Three years · one payment

  • 20-second still ad, every loop
  • Professional design
  • Industry exclusive for the term
  • Sponsor Night
  • Two social shout-outs a year
Animated Ad · Most visible
$2,900

Three years · one payment

  • 20-second animated ad, every loop
  • Professional design
  • Industry exclusive for the term
  • Sponsor Night
  • Two social shout-outs a year
Ask about a category

Our partners

The businesses
behind Hamilton

44 local businesses put their name behind Hamilton athletes this year. Every one of them chose to.

Leading partners 2026 Banquet

Diamond$5,000
Platinum$2,500
Gold$1,500

Supporting sponsors 2026 Banquet

Silver $1,000

Pearl $500

Also gave

On the gym screens Scorer’s table & entrance TVs

Your name belongs on this page

A gym screen package starts at $600 a year, and the year-round framework opens this fall.

See gym packages

Friday night, funded

Your name on
the gym screens.

The scorer’s table and both entrance TVs, every home event. One business per category.

See the packages Talk to us

Last season

One night,
$31,400

The 2026 Booster Banquet at Baker Lofts brought 29 businesses to one room and turned an evening into a year of equipment, uniforms and scholarships.

Dinner, a live band, a silent and live auction, and a dance floor that stayed open. The auction hour alone is the single biggest fundraising hour of the Boosters’ year.

The board is deciding what the 2027 event looks like. Whatever form it takes, the businesses below are the reason last season worked.

Raised

$31,400 in sponsorships and gifts

Businesses

29, from $150 to $5,000

Next event

Format for 2027 is with the board now.

Donate

Give in
two minutes

Online, by check, or as a designated gift. All of it stays in Hamilton.

Give to the General Fund

Uniforms, equipment, scholarships, recognition, facilities — wherever this season needs it most.

Give to the Legacy Fund

The five-to-ten-year projects a single season cannot pay for.

Card or PayPal, handled by PayPal — we never see your card number. Giving $1,000 or more? Send the donation form with it so we can record the designation and get your acknowledgement right.

Prefer to talk to a person first, designate a gift, or arrange an in-kind donation? Send us the details and we’ll follow up. Fields marked * are required; this opens your email app.

Only if you'd like the gift recognised under a business.
Designations are preserved and reported.

The paperwork

Tax and
transparency

Tax status

Registered 501(c)(3). Gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Our filings

We file a Form 990-EZ every year. It is public, and so is every figure on this site. Look us up →

Mail a check

Hamilton Athletic Boosters
P.O. Box 17
Hamilton, MI 49419

Every dollar is on the record. Coaches ask, the board votes in a public meeting, the Treasurer reports monthly, and the annual return is public. Read our Form 990 filings on ProPublica →

Every dollar has one job

Where your
gift lands

70%Annual Program Support — this year's teams, equipment, and athlete experience. Spent, not saved.
20%Legacy Impact — five-to-ten-year projects too big for a single year's budget.
10%Operations — concessions inventory, insurance, filings, banking. Capped on purpose.
0%Emergency Fund — already funded, replenished only if it's used.

Standing allocation of fundraising profit, adopted by board vote.

The track record

What sponsorship
actually buys

This season from the Treasurer’s ledger. The rest from the public record.

$79,809Into athletes
this season
10Programs
funded
$61,722Spent in FY2025
per IRS filing
9Years of
public filings

Annual filings: Form 990 on ProPublica.

See where it went See the growth

Straight answers

Sponsor
questions

Can I pick which sport my money goes to?

Yes, from Tier 2 up. Designation is preserved and reported. Athletics and recreation funds are tracked separately — they are never mixed.

Does this replace my team's own fundraiser?

No. This is the primary framework, not the only one. Supplemental team efforts remain possible.

Can I do both year-round and banquet sponsorship?

Yes, and several businesses do. They're separate programs with separate recognition.

Is my sponsorship tax-deductible?

The Boosters are a registered 501(c)(3). Ask your accountant how a sponsorship with recognition benefits is treated for your business — we'll give you documentation either way.

Your logo belongs here

Gym screens are open now, from $600 a year. The year-round framework goes to the board this fall — ask early and you get first pick of a category.

See what is open now

Thank you.

Forty-four years of this community deciding Hamilton athletes were worth it. Keep it going.

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Hamilton Athletic Boosters · P.O. Box 17, Hamilton, MI 49419 · hcsathleticboosters@hamiltonschools.us · hamiltonathleticboosters.org · Printed from the Support page.