Brakettes Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262706717
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Stratford, CT, USA
- Phone
- 0000000000
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Baseball, Softball
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $54,934
- Expenses
- $72,446
- Assets
- $64,127
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Robert Baird Jr (President General Manager)
People named in this filing
- Robert Baird Jr (President General Manager)
- James Lampart (Treasurer)
- Kathy Gage (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
Teaching sportsmanship to young female athletes building character of young athletes through amateur athletic competition during the summer months offering training to improve skills and softball in organized amateur competition hosted an annual softball training clinic to teach softball skills and sportsmanship to girls age 10 - 16 separate clinics focused upon pitching hitting and defense The Brakettes encourage inner city girls within the geographic region to attend clinics free of charge worked with local Municipal Recreation Department girls softball leagues by sending player Representatives as coaches to practices and games Community work included arrangements for local senior citizens groups and youth softball teams to attend games free of charge sponsored fundraising in public awareness for cancer research awarded annual scholarships to the local high school students involved in softball Public speaking to promote teamwork and the importance of physical fitness
What it reported doing in 2024
Worked with local Municipal Recreation Department girls softball leagues by sending player Representatives as coaches to practices and games Community work included arrangements for local senior citizens groups and youth softball teams to attend games free of charge sponsored fundraising in public awareness for cancer research awarded annual scholarships to the local high school students involved in softball public speaking to promote teamwork and the importance of physical fitness
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 8
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 9.1%; rating input score 9
- Program expense ratio: 6.9%; rating input score 7
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -31.9%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.89; rating input score 43; 43rd 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: -7.4% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 9.1% of revenue deployed · 6.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 9/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.