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The booster club raised the airfare. The airfare should raise something back.

American families now put more than $40 billion a year into youth sports, and travel is the single biggest line item, bigger than equipment, bigger than registration [Aspen Institute, 2025]. The marching band flies to the bowl game. The tournament team crosses three states in a season. The boosters funded every mile with car washes and candy bars, while the travel itself went unprotected and paid the club nothing. A BonaVia partnership is designed to change both: the roster travels protected, and a sponsorship from every covered trip goes back into the fund that bought the tickets.

Why clubs partner with BonaVia

A service to your families. A service to the season.

Your families’ need first: a travel-team family spends $3,000 to $5,000 a season on hotels and gas alone [Youth Sports Business Report, 2025], and travel is the largest single expense in youth sports [Aspen Institute, 2025]: the one line item nobody protects. When the flight dies the night before the tournament, the club is who forty families call.

Then the club’s need: the boosters fund the season with car washes and candy bars: volunteer hours spent selling things nobody needs. The sponsorship attaches funding to money the families are already spending to get to the games.

The sponsorship refills the fund

We share up to 40% of what we collect with your club as a sponsorship: plain dollars the treasurer can drop straight into the budget line the car washes used to fill: tournament fees, the travel fund, next year’s airfare.

One signup covers every team

A school or club signs up once, and every team’s travel runs through the same page: football’s playoff flights, the band’s bowl trip, volleyball’s spring circuit. It costs the club nothing, families pay the same price as anywhere, and the page exists the day you sign up.

You never sell insurance

BonaVia is the licensed producer; coverage is underwritten by our licensed carrier partners. The club shares a link and names the fund: the licensing, the disclosures, and the paperwork stay on our side of the table.

Forty families, one number to call

Every covered traveler, kid, parent, chaperone, carries the plan card in a phone wallet with a 24/7 assistance number riding on it. When the itinerary gives out at midnight, the coach isn’t the only phone number that answers.

The napkin math

A booster club with 40 traveling families, illustratively:

40 families, two flown tournament trips a season
80 covered trips
Family vacations booked through the club page
40+ covered trips
What sponsorship credit a typical active partner organization receives for its cause
~$1,200+ a year
In season terms
a year of tournament entry fees, without one more car wash

Illustrative volumes and typical-partner sponsorship credit from the BonaVia working model, not a quote or a promised rate. Sponsorship credit is credited per covered trip and varies with travel volume.

The season’s open secret

The organizations that sanction youth sports already bundle liability insurance into every season: the field is covered; the getting-there is the hole. Every roster that crosses a state line is a busload of families carrying deposits, airfare, and instruments with no protection behind them.

The stakes are not small. Travel costs families about $260 per child, per sport, per year on average, more than equipment, registration, or private lessons, and multiples of that on travel teams [Aspen Institute, 2025]. One cancelled flight, one tournament-week injury, one lost instrument case, and a season of fundraising evaporates in a weekend.

The booster club stands behind all of it: it organized the fundraisers, chartered the buses, collected the forms. It is exactly the organization BonaVia was built to reward.

What goes wrong out there

The pitcher’s ankle in pool play

A 12U travel-baseball club from a 2A school district in Ohio drives nine hours to a national qualifier in Georgia, families spending what travel-ball families spend, $3,000 to $5,000 a season on hotels and gas alone [YSBR, 2025]. Their starting pitcher rolls an ankle in the first pool-play game. The tournament is over for that family by Friday night, but the hotel block and the rest of the week’s costs aren’t. Trip interruption benefits are designed to help recover eligible unused, prepaid costs when a covered injury sends a family home early.

The dance team’s missing costume bag

A competitive dance studio’s senior team flies to nationals in Orlando; the checked bag with fifteen custom costumes doesn’t. Two performance days, one big-box run, and a director improvising. Baggage delay benefits are designed to help with the emergency replacements that kept the team on stage.

The night before the bowl game

A 5A high school band earns a bowl-game halftime slot: 210 kids, $1,800 apiece, a year of fundraising. Then the weather map lights up.

  1. 9:40 pm

    The airline app pings: tomorrow’s connection through O’Hare is cancelled. In a bad winter storm, O’Hare has scrubbed a quarter of a day’s departures [CBS Chicago].

  2. 10:15 pm

    The director starts doing air-traffic control from the band-hall whiteboard: half the band rebooked through Denver, the sousaphones on a truck, parents refreshing the group chat.

  3. 7:00 am

    Travel-delay benefits are designed to help with the extra hotel night and meals while the rebooking shakes out: receipts, not another fundraiser.

  4. Day 2

    The instrument cases that took the scenic route: baggage benefits are designed to help while the airline hunts them down before the halftime show.

  5. After

    Every covered trip on that itinerary accrued sponsorship for the club that raised the airfare in the first place.

The season, in numbers

$40B+

what US families put into youth sports every year: travel the biggest single line, and the only one with no protection behind it.

Aspen Institute Project Play, 2025

#1

travel is the largest family youth-sports expense, ahead of equipment, registration, and private lessons.

Aspen Institute, 2025

$3,000–$5,000

a travel-team family’s season in hotels and gas alone: money that can be gone if an injury ends the week on day one.

Youth Sports Business Report, 2025

$52.2B

youth and amateur sports travel spending in the US: a bigger market than spectator sports tourism, riding on family cars and commercial flights.

Sports ETA, 2023

Trip-protection availability varies by trip type and state.

What happens when you sign up

I

Tell us about your club

The teams, the tournament calendar, and the fund the sponsorship should feed. We respond within two business days.

II

The club’s page goes live

A co-branded page with your club’s name and its fund, ready for the group chat, the email list, and the folding table at the game, the day you sign up.

III

One organizer, the whole roster

The trip organizer runs one enrollment and the roster is protected on the same plan: no forty separate checkouts, no family left uncovered because a form died in a group chat.

IV

The sponsorship goes back into the fund

We share up to 40% of what we collect with your club as a sponsorship, in plain dollars the treasurer can drop straight into the season budget.

The season in trips

The calendar the club already keeps, every covered trip on it accruing sponsorship:

  • Pre-seasonThe club enrolls the roster for the tournament calendar in one pass.
  • In seasonThe qualifier three states over; the invitational that requires flights; the bowl-game or parade bid that lands with four months to fundraise.
  • Post-seasonNationals: the one trip nobody budgeted for, because nobody dared assume they’d make it.
  • Off-seasonEach family’s own vacations, booked through the club’s page, still generating the sponsorship.

What could your sponsorship fund?

You name the cause. Every covered trip funds it.

  • Tournament entry fees
  • New uniforms
  • Equipment replacement
  • Travel scholarships for families who can’t swing the trip
  • The end-of-season banquet
  • Field and facility time
  • Next season’s airfare

…or anything else your club cares about: you tell us who. A thousand dollars is a season of entry fees, credited back from travel the families were buying anyway.

Out on the road

  • The bowl-game connection through O’Hare that cancelled the night before the halftime show.
  • The sousaphone case that landed in the wrong city, two days before competition.
  • The pitcher’s rolled ankle that ended the family’s tournament week on day one.
  • The hotel block you paid for; the hurricane that closed the tournament.
  • The costume bag that missed the connection to dance nationals.
  • The bus-to-flight itinerary that gave out at the layover, forty kids deep.

Talk to a partnership director

Fifteen minutes, and you’ll know exactly what this looks like for your club, and what a season of covered travel could put back in the fund.

Tell us about your organization and how your people travel. A partnership director reads every note and responds within two business days.

Or check a trip price first

Sponsorship terms