Bend Bullets
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474179669
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Bend, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5414101889
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $59,983
- Expenses
- $64,153
- Assets
- $73,943
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Kromm (President)
- Steve Lacrosse (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- John Kromm (President)
- Steve Lacrosse (Vice President)
- Shannon Kromm (Treasurer)
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
Bend Bullets provides a competitive hockey environment for youth of Central Oregon. Our mission is to affect positive changes in the lives of our youth through sports. It is through sports that we can learn to stretch ourselves to do greater things, accomplish bigger goals, and help others along the way. This objective is so important to us that we have it in our name: Better Understanding Life Lessons and Expectations Through Sports.
What it reported doing in 2025
During 2021, the organization had over 30 enrolled players on four competitive teams. These teams, ages 14 and under, competed in 6 tournaments across the west coast. These include: NorCal Cup, Northwest Cup, North American Roller Hockey Championship Finals, Indoor Goals Invitational, and Pacific Inline Hockey League.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.6% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $64K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.