Bethesda Big Train
Legal name: Bethesda Community Base Ball Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850895405
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Bethesda, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3019835422
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Baseball, Softball
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $541,891
- Expenses
- $465,653
- Assets
- $503,848
- Liabilities
- $1,085
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bruce Adams (President and Founder)
- Amy Matush (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Bruce Adams (President and Founder)
- Amy Matush (Vice President)
- William Landau (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide affordable family fun right near home through community-based baseball, while improving youth baseball and softball fields.
What it reported doing in 2024
BCBBC operates the Bethesda Big Train, an elite level collegiate wooden bat summer baseball team that provides affordable family fun for close to 15,000 fans at its home ballpark, Shirley Povich Field, during June and July. To date, 24 members of Bethesda Big Train have played for a major league baseball team. BBCCS uses these games to educate our youth and the broader public about our multicultural community and the value of volunteerism. In addition to hosting a different community nonprofit every home game as our Community Hero of the Game, we showcase the admirable diversity of our community each year through our Clarence "Pint" Isreal Juneteenth Classic that honors our local history of Black sandlot baseball, Jewish Baseball Heritage Night, Pride Night, Sister Cities Night, Seniors Night, Military and First Responders Night, and Latin Baseball Heritage Night. Additionally, annually we hold a Roberto Clemente Community Service Day during which our players and fans volunteer at nonprofit organizations in our community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.5%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 68%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $22.17 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- 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: 14.1%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.08; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.2% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 62.5% of revenue deployed · 68% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $317K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.