Black Bear Youth Hockey Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
850843768
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Bethesda, MD, USA
Phone
2402231330
Rating
66
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Winter Sports

Reported finances

Revenue
$103,308
Expenses
$17,668
Assets
$94,265
Liabilities
$3,000

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Andrew Goldman (President)

People named in this filing

  • Andrew Goldman (President)
  • Robert Dragonette (Treasurer)
  • Murry Gunty (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Black Bear Youth Hockey Foundation provides need-based grants of financial assistance to youth hockey players to offset costs associated with skating and playing hockey.

What it reported doing in 2025

During 2025, Black Bear Youth Hockey Foundation provided 25 need-based scholarships to youth hockey players to offset costs associated with skating and playing hockey.

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
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 43
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 85
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 15.2%; rating input score 15
  • Program expense ratio: 89.1%; rating input score 89

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 82.9%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.34; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -34.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -10.6% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -8.8% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 15.2% of revenue deployed · 89.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $16K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 15/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.