Bay State Jaguars Basketball Club

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
770649061
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2009–2018
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2018
Location
Newton, MA, USA
Phone
6172444300
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$172,936
Expenses
$245,803
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$9,625

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LAURIE BOLLIN (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • LAURIE BOLLIN (PRESIDENT)

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 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The bay state jaguars strive to provide a fun and competitive environment in which our players can improve not only as basketball players but also as young men and women. Our on the court focus is on providing our players with the opportunity to develop into the best basketball players they can be a goal we achieve through (1) a skill development based approach to teaching the game and (2) by providing our teams with the opportunity to compete regionally and nationally at the highest levels of the grassroots game. While we are proud of the tangible results in the form of tournament championships and players going on to play collegiately that our program has produced, the bay state jaguars are committed to being a process based organization in which our focus remains not on an end result but on the process of developing our players. The bay state jaguars view basketball as a vehicle for teaching our players that each one of them has the ability to make choices with respect to their atti

What it reported doing in 2018

To provide gym facilities, clinics and tournaments for participants to practice and play basketball

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 99
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 9
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 97.3%; rating input score 97

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -42.1%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -29.5% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $239K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2009 to 2018
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.