Absolute Blast Elite Youth Training and Playing Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861550880
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Redmond, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2066504632
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Sports Associations &Training Facilities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $177,418
- Expenses
- $167,637
- Assets
- $71,635
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Claudia Augustine (President)
People named in this filing
- Claudia Augustine (President)
- Meldon Pettitt (Treasurer)
- Danyele Peters (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization annually fields highly competitive fastpitch teams at various age levels, with the end goal of placing our athletes in collegiate programs nationwide. By providing a safe and secure environment that aims to inspire and motivate, we help guide our players to reach their potentials both on the playing field, and most importantly, in life.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide coaching, training, support, and facilities for girls fastpitch teams in the Puget Sound region. The organization serves girls between the ages of 10 to 18.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 76% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.5%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.5%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 34% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 30.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $168K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.