Whether you run a single recreational baseball league or manage a multi-sport club organization, Zubie Five helps you build a professional sponsorship program. We identify the value in your assets — jerseys, banners, fields, digital channels — and find the local businesses and national brands ready to invest in your community.
Run a Little League district or oversee multiple youth programs under one umbrella? Bundling sponsorship across every team in your district means one agreement instead of many — see how district bundling works →
Get StartedMost youth sports fundraising works by asking the people who already paid. Families who wrote a registration check get asked again — to sell, to donate, to show up, to ask their neighbors and coworkers, or to work a restaurant night where a missed mention, a forgotten code, or a distracted cashier means the sale happened and the program never saw a dime of it.
Sponsorship asks businesses with marketing budgets instead. A local business buys visibility in front of a community it wants to reach. It's a purchase, not a favor. Your coaches coach, your board governs, your families watch their kids play — and nobody's child stands outside a grocery store with an order form.
A kid selling door to door isn't doing homework or getting extra reps at practice that evening — and if they're too young to drive, a parent's evening is gone too. Across a full roster and a season, that's real time. Nobody counts it, because nobody invoices for it.
Selling is hard even for adults who chose it as a career. A kid pitching a stranger, absorbing a no, or fumbling a question they weren't ready for is doing something genuinely difficult — and the kids who struggle most with it are often the ones who quietly stop showing up.
It also means kids going business to business — on commercial streets, sometimes to strangers, sometimes after dark once fall sports start. It's accepted because it's tradition, not because anyone actually weighed the risk.
That doesn't mean your tournament, banquet, or season-ending event stops working — those build community beyond the money, and they're worth keeping. Sponsorship replaces the grind of product sales and repeat donation asks, not the events your organization is already proud of.
Netting $5,000 through a typical product fundraiser takes selling something like 5,000 chocolate bars at standard margins. The same $5,000 is about four sponsors at $2,000 each, after commission — and nobody on your team has to make those four calls themselves.
Commission-only. We earn 15–30% of the sponsorship revenue we close for you, scaled to deal size — larger deals, lower rates. Renewal rates decline every season and never reach zero. We're paid only on money you actually collect, never on signatures.
We work with organizations where the total sponsorship opportunity is $1,000 or more per season. There's no minimum on any individual sponsorship — five outfield banners at $200 each is a program we'll build. One $200 banner with nothing else to sell isn't.
If you're not sure what you've got, our valuation tool is free and we'll walk through it with you.
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How much does it cost to work with Zubie Five? +
What size league do you work with? +
Do you work with club and travel teams, or just leagues and schools? +
How long does it take to find sponsors? +
What if we already have some sponsors? +
Our registration platform already offers sponsorship money — why do we need this? +
How do I know Zubie Five won't take our sponsor's money and disappear? +
What happens if we sign and it doesn't work out? +
Is this considered fundraising? Do we need to register as using a professional solicitor? +
What happens to our sponsors if you can't continue operating? +
Do we have to be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit? +
These are a few of the markets we're building in — not the full list. If you're outside these markets, reach out anyway — we take on new territory when the opportunity is right.
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There's no rate card in community sports, and anyone who hands you one is guessing. These are the ranges most sponsorships in our markets land in — we've seen the same outfield banner priced at $175 at one league and $900 at another five miles away.
| Asset | Typical Range Per Season |
|---|---|
| Field or outfield banner | $175 – $900 |
| Banner across multiple fields | $400 – $1,500 |
| Team or uniform sponsorship | $250 – $1,200 |
| Scoreboard panel | $500 – $3,000 |
| Season program or event t-shirt ad | $50 – $500 |
| Opening day or event booth | $250 – $1,000 |
| Tournament or event title | $1,000 – $10,000 |
| Full-season league title sponsor | $2,000 – $15,000 |
Ranges observed across published sponsorship pages from youth sports organizations in California and Arizona. Individual pricing varies significantly by organization.
Why the ranges are this wide. Two leagues five miles apart can price the same banner very differently, and both can be right. What moves it: how many families are registered, how many home dates the venue hosts, whether the sign is visible outside game hours, and how much the organization has invested in its facilities and audience.
Many organizations are underpricing. Part of our job is establishing what an asset is actually worth before it goes to market — which is why we start with a valuation, not a rate card.
Seeing higher numbers than you've been charging? That's common, and it's the most useful thing we do. Run your assets through the free valuation tool and see where you land.
Operate at more than one field or facility? See how a multi-location program works →
Listing isn't selling. Sponsorship marketplaces put your inventory in a directory and wait for someone to find it. We build the packages, identify the businesses, make the calls, and close the deals. If nobody's reaching out to your program today, a listing won't change that.
No upfront cost. No contract term. Just results. Get started with a free sponsorship valuation today.