Bowling Proprietors of York County
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812495991
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- York, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7178800677
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Amateur Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,618
- Expenses
- $11,222
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID ZELGER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DAVID ZELGER (PRESIDENT)
- TERRY BRENNEMAN (VP)
- JIM PLESSINGER (SECRETARY/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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Bowling Proprietors Association of York is committed to the promotion of the business and sport of bowling in the York County area. Our member proprietors contribute their time,
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided scholarships
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 23
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 20.5%; rating input score 20
- Program expense ratio: 28.5%; rating input score 29
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 28.1%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd 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: -12% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 20.5% of revenue deployed · 28.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 20/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 29/100.
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.