2021
10,300
2018
13,307
2017
14,111
2016
15,428
2015
20,000
We had over 20,000 back in 14-15
https://floridastate.forums.rivals.com/threads/booster-numbers-are-declining.250191/
2018
13,307
2017
14,111
2016
15,428
Booster update from Jerry Kutz
7/08/2014
By the late 1990s our membership had grown to about 19,000 people and about $10 million in annual donations.
To put our current good fortune and emotions into perspective, I have to remind you that our season tickets fell from almost 50,000 to less than 34,000 toward the end of the Bowden era and the Booster membership numbers dropped from 19,000 to 12,000 even though contributions continued to go up.
We topped 23,000 Seminole Booster members last year counting our Student Boosters and raised more than $15 million in our annual fund, which was a record. We will likely go over 25,000 members this year counting Student Boosters and top $16 million.
"To answer your question, we had about 15,500 last year with about 8,000 Student Boosters typically. That puts us in the top 10 of collegiate fundraising orgs depending on how they count their numbers. Most are 16,000 or less so we are among the big boys in membership. Typically, the SEC and ACC schools ticket requirements are much higher than ours so we are in the top 25 in terms of dollars generated by members. You may find it hard to imagine but our average contribution per member is about $1000 while most of the SEC and ACC schools average donation required is closer to $2000 per member ($100 difference between ACC and SEC last year).
A.) Our numbers have always vacillated between 11,000 and 19,000.
3. You have to understand the numbers. The brochure Corey and Aslan were talking about - and this thread is arguing over - is an ANNUAL fund brochure. We reported 1000 fewer Boosters in the ANNUAL fund each of the last few years to where we now have 13,331. That's the transparency we posters accuse us of not reporting. But that number is NOT total Boosters.
We have a couple of thousand Boosters who give to Coaches Clubs and hundreds of Boosters who make endowment gifts, estate gifts and major facility gifts ranging from $25,000 to $20 million just this year.
Those Boosters don't count in that 13,331 number. And our Student Seminole Boosters aren't counted in those numbers.
Sure, FSU teams have done it without many of our fans and alumni (there's 500,000 grads or friends in our database and only 14,000 who give $60 or more per year to support athletics as a Seminole Booster member). But as our loyal donors die off, we need some of you young bucks -- who want us to pay coaches top d
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