Bold Baseball Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203158141
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Bird Island, MN, USA
- Phone
- 3205221264
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,612
- Expenses
- $88,847
- Assets
- $52,442
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MIKE NAGEL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MIKE NAGEL (PRESIDENT)
- MERLIN ATHMANN (SECRETARY/TR)
- TOM SMITH (CO-VICE PRES)
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
To provide the children in our community the opportunity to learn and participate in the sports of baseball, softball, soccer, and football in a fun and safe environment.
What it reported doing in 2025
Promote, develop, supervise and voluntarily assist in all lawful ways, the interest of those who will participate in our leagues.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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 - 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: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.1%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 70.9%; rating input score 71
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.5%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.59; rating input score 35; 35th 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: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.1% of revenue deployed · 70.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.