Blade Brigade
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431935541
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- St Louis, MO, USA
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recreation& Sports N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $51,385
- Expenses
- $52,741
- Assets
- $14,309
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Stephanie Kaiser (President)
- Misti Valleroy (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Stephanie Kaiser (President)
- Misti Valleroy (Vice President)
- Jennifer McRoberts (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Public benefit organization that is organized exclusively for charitable purposes.
What it reported doing in 2024
Members of Blade Brigade volunteered during the Sweetheart Open, a skating competition held at the Wayne C Kennedy Recreation Complex. This competition benefits the Friends of South County Skaters, a non-profit organization, as well as the Wayne C Kennedy Recreation Complex of the St Louis County Parks and Recreation Department.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.2%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 94.7%; rating input score 95
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: -2.6%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 97.2% of revenue deployed · 94.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $50K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.