Roosevelt High School’s 2025 11-Man Football season was cancelled mid-way through the season after the team’s Homecoming game on September 20, 2025. That game was rained out at half time, due to a thunder storm. As reported by the school’s Athletic Director, the team had suffered some prior injuries and also the loss of some upper class team members, and the school felt that it was unsafe to continue the season with the remaining team members, many of whom were younger and smaller players.
The Roosevelt Community Council raised funds in 2025 to provide breakfast to the team before its Saturday games. Usually, this involves feeding 40 to 50 team members and a few coaches for each breakfast. Sometimes, members of the cheerleading team are also present and invited to have breakfast as well.
This is an activity we have supported for a number of years, and it has also been supported by several nearby neighborhood associations and a number of businesses, as well as the public, at the annual fundraiser we hold at Riley’s Irish Pub on the weekend before Labor Day weekend.
The funds that we raise for the Football Breakfasts are held by the St. Louis Education Fund (formerly the St. Louis Public Schools Foundation), a 501(c)(3) charity recognized by the IRS which supports a number of activities within the district, but which is a separate legal entity with its own board of directors and staff. (In fact, all of the RCC’s funds are held by the St. Louis Education Fund in separately designated funds.)
None of the money raised for the Football Breakfasts goes to or is in the possession of the high school itself or the district at any time. All of the RCC’s funds are safely held by the StL Ed Fund. Please be assured that we carefully track all of the funds of the RCC that are held by the StL Ed Fund.
Seven “Football Breakfasts” were planned for fall 2025, and over the summer, a caterer was hired and paid for all seven breakfasts. We hire and pay a caterer in advance so that we can be assured that a caterer will be available for each breakfast. Only four of the seven breakfasts were provided before the season cancellation on September 20th. However, our caterer, in anticipation that food prices would be increasing this fall, had already purchased most of the food needed for all of the breakfasts this fall, and is holding it frozen.
An arrangement has been made with the caterer to provide breakfast to the school staff (about 80 people) on Friday, November 7, 2025. As usual, volunteers will be present to serve the food. In addition, we hope to provide a special breakfast this fall for the Roosevelt HS men’s soccer team, depending upon scheduling. The men’s soccer team has 20 to 25 members and has been having a good season.
The specific fund that we use for the Football Breakfasts (Fund 935) is also used for other things that we provide to the school from time to time. For example, we have used small amounts of funding to purchase books for the Rough Rider Reading Nooks. The Rough Rider Reading Nooks are several furnished spots inside the school where Little Free Libraries are located. (See photo below.) In the spring of 2025, just prior to Spring Break, we provided grocery store gift cards to 12 families at Roosevelt, using funds from Fund 935. The families were selected by social workers at the school who were aware of family circumstances and were able to select families that were in need at that time. The RCC confirmed that the gift cards were all provided to appropriate recipients.
We want to assure all of our supporters that the funds that we raise for Roosevelt High School are carefully tracked and used for appropriate purposes to support Roosevelt’s students. Any questions can be directed to us through our website’s “Contact Us” page at: https://rooseveltcommunitycouncil.blogspot.com/
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| Rough Rider Reading Nook #1 on April 18, 2023 |
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