Black Knights Auto Club Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203789267
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Spirit Lake, IA, USA
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Mutual/Membership Benefit N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,209
- Expenses
- $19,590
- Assets
- $9,612
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nick Maranell (President)
- Eric Anderson (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Nick Maranell (President)
- Eric Anderson (Vice President)
- Gary Crandall (Secretary)
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 Club holds events throughout the year to raise funds to donate back into the Community through non-profit organizations as well as donating to vetted critical need persons such as cancer diagnosis and deaths in the family. We have donated generously to the food banks in the area as well as the Estherville Christmas Project which serves over 350 families in the holiday time frame. We also have provided 4 scholarships to Nursing Students at Iowa Lakes Community College.
What it reported doing in 2025
We have provided services to the Community through various donations that are listed above but we have focused highly on the food banks in our area as well as donations to non-profits which service the maximum number of community members as possible such as the Estherville Community Christmas Project which services over 350 area families as well as vetted needs that have been presented for catastrophic needs of individuals with things such as a Cancer diagnosis or other Catastrophic disease which has impacted their family finances.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Transfer-based 990-EZ. The 990-EZ reports grants or member benefits, but it does not separate enough spending to show the nonprofit’s full delivery mix.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- 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: -28.8%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 31; 31st 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- 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 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.