California League of Professional Baseball Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
941126450
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2021
Forms available
Form 990 2021
Location
Oxnard, CA, USA
Phone
8059858585
Rating
50
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$47,640
Expenses
$134,829
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHARLIE BLANEY (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • MATT BLANEY (SECRETARY/TREASURER): $46,667 total reported compensation
  • CHARLIE BLANEY (PRESIDENT): $44,333 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To perpetuate baseball as an international game and suround it with such safeguards as to warrant absolute public confidence in its integrity and methods. To protect, promote, and improve the mutual interest of baseball clubs and baseball players. To establish and regulate the baseball championships. To unite in common organization those prfessionally engaged un baseball. To formulate and maintain ethical standards for the guidance of its members in their relations with each other and with the public.

What it reported doing in 2021

This entity supervised the operation of the league of teams, providing services listed, and in doing so, created a stable atmosphere for the member teams. This stability is felt to be in the bests interest of professional baseball.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 66% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 most voting board members are independent. 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: 29
  • Transparency & Controls: 81
  • Accountability: 66
  • Sustainability: 8
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 42.7%; rating input score 43
  • Program expense ratio: 14.5%; rating input score 15
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -183%; rating input score 13; 13th 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: 67.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -19.3% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -20.3% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -19.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 42.7% of revenue deployed · 14.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $20K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $47K · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2014 to 2021
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 15/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.