Grassroot Soccer Inc
Overview
Mission
Grassroot soccer is an adolescent health organization that leverages the power of soccer to equip young people with life-saving information, services, and mentorship to live healthier lives.
What it reported doing in 2024
Research & advocacy: grassroot soccer aspires to be the go-to partner in adolescent health through its dedication to research, learning, advocacy, communications, and partnership development. Grassroot soccer rigorously evaluates the efficacy of its programs through routine monitoring & evaluation and research, integrating these insights, along with the latest science and research in the field, into its programs so that they have the greatest impact possible, while also contributing to the greater understanding of what works in adolescent health. Grassroot soccer also works closely with government and non-governmental partners to share learning from our implementation and research and provide technical assistance.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431957920
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Hanover, NH, USA
- Phone
- 6032779685
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.2%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 69.7%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.06 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Pass
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Pass
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 96.5%; rating input score 96; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.1%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.94; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.3%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.2% of revenue deployed · 69.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $5.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $252K · 20 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $119K reported
- Consistency: 38 of 39 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 annual filings from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- THOMAS CLARK (PRESIDENT/CEO): $252,082 total reported compensation
- LISA KABLE (CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER): $219,401 total reported compensation
- FIONA SHANKS YUCHA (VP GLOBAL OPERATIONS): $206,464 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2024.