Bay Area Charter Schools Athletic Conference
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270526606
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Mateo, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6505339256
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $444,251
- Expenses
- $440,222
- Assets
- $213,740
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
People named in this filing
- ALICIA BLACKNELL (DIRECTOR)
- KARLA GANDIAGA (DIRECTOR)
- LORI SMITH (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The bay area charter school athletic conference (bacsac) is a corporation organized for public and charitable purposes. Bacsac works exclusively to promote amateur athletics and education to its member schools. In service to its member schools bacsac conducts interscholastic athletic programs, establishes the administration of the league's athletic programs, promotes a code of ethics as established by the California interscholastic federation, promotes equal opportunities for all students in member schools' athletic programs regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation, religion or national origin in the employment of personnel in member schools' athletic programs or in the selections of its officers or committee members.
What it reported doing in 2024
Bacsac continued to provide athletic programs to 21 charter schools throughout the san francisco east bay area in academic year 2024-25. Student participation in our sports is strong as we served around 2100 students competing on 162 different teams. The number of girls in our sports programs is expanding steadily. Girls and boys' soccer and basketball remain our largest sports. Both baseball and girls' volleyball are growing as is boys' volleyball, which we added three years ago. We established an assistant commissioner position for the coming year to respond to increased demand. Bacsac remains a strong, financially stable organization.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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 - 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.7%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 59.1%; rating input score 59
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.9%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.7% of revenue deployed · 59.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $260K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 21 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $120K reported
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.