East Chatham Little League receives ZERO funding from the county and school board. Our league pays for all the field/building expenses, mowing and utilities at the following fields: 2 at Pittsboro Elementary, 2 at North Chatham Elementary, Perry Harrison Elementary and Horton Middle School.  We also help with mowing the 2 fields at Northwood and possibly Seaforth in the future. This is the agreement we have in place with the Board of Education in order to maintain access to these facilities.  We had to rent fields at Briar Chapel to accommodate the addition of softball as well. Therefore, we want to be transparent with our finances in relation to registration fees.

Listed below are our yearly expenses broken down by category, and our league's operating cost per player (baseball and softball) for the 2024 spring season was $215. The fall season is not included since it's designed to break even financially. Also not included are large capital expenses like our concrete aprons, scoreboards, new mowers and flagpoles. As you can see, the league relies heavily on concessions, fundraising, sponsors and donations to make up the difference in this cost, and tries to achieve a surplus in order to fund yearly improvement and expansion projects.

In addition, the start-up costs associated with softball significantly added to the regular operational expenses of our league.  We thank you for your continued support!