Best Ever Golf Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464096745
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Madison, AL, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Soccer
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,157
- Expenses
- $7,136
- Assets
- $20,695
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rick Rush (Director- BEGA President -BEGA IT)
- Lance Morris (Director - Sec Treas Mon and Sat President)
- Carl Heater (Co-President Saturday League)
People named in this filing
- Rick Rush (Director- BEGA President -BEGA IT)
- George Landingham (Director- BEGA VP-Tues League Pres)
- Linda Brooks (Director - Tour Dir and Handicap committee)
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
The purposes for which the corporation is formed and the objects to be carried on and promoted by it are as follows: a To stimulate interest in golf by bringing together a group of golfers desirous of forming a golfing organization; b To promote and foster among the members a closer bond and fraternity for their joint and mutual benefit and to promote and conserve the best interests and true spirit of the game as embodied in its ancient and honorable traditions; c To encourage conformance to the USGA Rules of Golf by creating a representative authority; d To maintain a uniform system of handicapping as set forth in the USGA Handicap System and issue USGA Handicap Indexes to the members; e To provide an authoritative body to govern and conduct association competitions.
What it reported doing in 2025
Ran a 9-hole Monday and Thursday afternoon leagues for 26 golfers Tuesday retiree league with participation at approximately 50 golfers per week and a Saturday league with average participation of about 28 golfers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -38.4%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.9; rating input score 74; 74th 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: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -18.8% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.