Au Football Lettermen's Club Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 630852544
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2012, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Auburn, AL, USA
- Phone
- 3343298288
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,021
- Expenses
- $101,118
- Assets
- $45,626
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BEN LEARD (PRESIDENT)
- AL GIFFIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- JUSTIN GARRETT (PAST PRESIDENT)
- GORDON STONE (PRESIDENT EMERITUS)
People named in this filing
- BEN LEARD (PRESIDENT)
- RUSTY DEEN (EXECUTIVE SECRETARY)
- AL GIFFIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote the educational opportunities of au's football athletes. To promote sports excellence at au, and to provide scholarships to au athletes.
What it reported doing in 2025
Expense of maintaining the aflc lettermen's lounge at jordan-hare stadium at auburn university. The lounge is the centerpiece of aflc activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 77% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 79% for direct work, and 21% for grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 24
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 24.5%; rating input score 24
- Program expense ratio: 24%; rating input score 24
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.1%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.6% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 24.5% of revenue deployed · 24% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $24K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 24/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.