Beat the Streets Los Angeles

What Beat the Streets Los Angeles does

Beat the Streets Los Angeles (legal entity: Beat the Streets – Los Angeles, Inc.; DBAs: BTSLA, Beat the Streets LA) is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity (EIN 45-4425805) founded in January 2012 and headquartered at 515 S Figueroa St, 16th Floor, Los Angeles, California. The organization delivers sports-based youth development programs in wrestling to underserved youth in Los Angeles County through a portfolio of year-round wrestling programming, summer enrichment (including a Summer Academy at Belmont High School), community park-based practices (Roosevelt Park, Lennox Park, Topanga Division), coach and mentor training, competitions and clinics (e.g., All Valley Wrestling Championship), a leadership development track (Tomorrow's Leaders) with college campus tours and resume-building, and Empowerment Grants to students at underfunded local high schools.

Its underlying delivery model is a free, in-person community service funded by donations and grants rather than fee-based revenue. Distribution runs through direct field presence at schools and parks (Belmont High School and the named park partners), supplemented by self-serve online registration for seasonal programs and a GoFundMe donation channel. The organization is governed by a Board of Directors chaired by Andy Barth and operates with a 26-person staff serving 9,980 cumulative youth across 135 communities since inception, with current-season reach including 88+ participants in Tomorrow's Leaders and 244 student-athletes at the All Valley Wrestling Championship.

Revenue mechanics are donation- and grant-driven and not publicly disclosed, with no corporate parent, no subsidiaries, no M&A activity, and no proprietary technology stack. There are no AI/ML capabilities, no APIs, and no enterprise software products in the portfolio. Competitive positioning rests on deep community partnerships with schools and parks, Olympic-level coaching access (including named coaches such as John Azevedo and Morris Bird), and integration into the broader 13-chapter Beat the Streets national network, as demonstrated by participation in the 2026 National Camp & Duals in Cleveland, Ohio.

Name

Beat the Streets Los Angeles

Legal name

Beat the Streets - Los Angeles, Inc.

Website

https://beatthestreets-la.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Beat the Streets Los Angeles is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that delivers free wrestling and youth development programs — including coaching, summer enrichment, and the Tomorrow's Leaders leadership track — to underserved youth (ages 6–18) across the Los Angeles area, funded by donations and grants.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Youth Development Services

NAICS

Sports and Recreation Instruction (61162)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Arts, Sports & Recreation-Based Youth Development Nonprofits (BPAGADAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Amateur & Developmental Combat Promotions (Feeder leagues) (MPAKAHAG)

Keywords

• Youth wrestling programs
• Youth development services
• Sports-based mentoring
• After-school athletics
• College preparation support

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Beat the Streets Los Angeles is a nonprofit public charity that provides sports-based youth development through wrestling. It runs wrestling programs, summer programs, coach and mentor training, competitions and clinics, Summer Academy, and National Camp and Duals, along with empowerment grants and college-transition support such as Tomorrow's Leaders. Programming is delivered free of charge to underserved youth ages 6-18 in the Los Angeles area.

Product overview

Beat the Streets Los Angeles is a sports-based youth development nonprofit organization offering a unified portfolio of wrestling programs for youth in Los Angeles. The core offerings include year-round wrestling programs, summer enrichment programming (Summer Academy, community practices), coach and mentor training, and competitions and clinics. Additional programs include the Tomorrow's Leaders leadership development initiative and Empowerment Grants for underfunded schools. The organization hosts the annual National Camp and Duals as a flagship event, bringing together athletes from multiple chapters nationwide.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Wrestling Programs Year-round wrestling instruction and training for under-resourced youth ages 6-18 in Los Angeles, delivered as a free program of the nonprofit.
• Summer Programs Seasonal summer programming that extends the organization's wrestling and youth development activities during the summer break for participants in Los Angeles.
• Coach & Mentor Training Training program that develops coaches and mentors to deliver wrestling instruction and youth development support to program participants.
• Competitions & Clinics Wrestling competitions and skill clinics that give youth participants opportunities to apply training and compete in structured events.
• Tomorrow's Leaders Leadership and college-transition support program designed to prepare youth participants for post-secondary education and adulthood.
• Summer Academy Summer academy combining athletic training with academic enrichment for youth participants during the summer break.
• National Camp and Duals National camp and dual meet events that bring youth participants together for high-level wrestling training and competition.
• Empowerment Grants Grant program provided in partnership with funders that delivers direct support to youth participants in the organization's pipeline.

Quantifiable outcome

• 9,980 youth served since 2012
• +2 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• USA Wrestling: National governing body for the sport of wrestling in the U.S., running youth development pipelines and athlete identification programs that overlap with BTSLA's developmental wrestling mission at scale.
• Police Athletic League (PAL): Established national nonprofit running youth sports and development programs in urban communities, comparable in target population and youth-development-through-sport model, though operating across many sports rather than wrestling only.
• Boys & Girls Clubs of America: Large incumbent youth development organization with comparable mission of serving underserved youth and incorporating athletics; differs in multi-sport, multi-program scale and broad national footprint.

Others

• Athletes for Hope: Nonprofit connecting athletes with charitable causes including youth sport access; comparable in mobilizing sport figures for underserved-youth programs and a potential partner/peer for BTSLA's Olympic-coach-driven model.
• National Wrestling Hall of Fame: Wrestling heritage and recognition organization that runs youth outreach and honors amateur wrestling achievement, thematically aligned with BTSLA's developmental wrestling focus though primarily a recognition body.

Regional players

• KIPP LA Public Schools: LA-based education nonprofit serving similar underserved student populations where BTSLA's Empowerment Grants and Tomorrow's Leaders college-prep programming are delivered, making it a regional partner/peer in the academic-enrichment layer of BTSLA's model.

Direct peers

• LA84 Foundation: Los Angeles-based sports-focused youth development foundation that funds and operates youth sport programs across the same LA communities BTSLA serves, with an overlapping mission of using sport to develop underserved youth.
• Beat the Streets (National): The umbrella Beat the Streets network (headquartered in NYC) that BTSLA belongs to, running the same youth wrestling development model in other cities and co-hosting the National Camp & Duals in which BTSLA participates.
• Beat the Streets Philadelphia: Sister Beat the Streets chapter serving Philadelphia's underserved youth through wrestling, using the same network model and attending the same National Camp & Duals as BTSLA.
• Beat the Streets Cleveland: Sister Beat the Streets chapter in Cleveland — host city of the National Camp & Duals — running a comparable wrestling-based youth development program in its local community.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/btslosangeles
• Facebookfacebook.com/BTSLosAngeles
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/beat-the-streets-los-angeles
• Instagraminstagram.com/btslosangeles

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Number of profiles

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Funding overview

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M&A

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