Capital City Young Guns
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474808145
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Mandan, ND, USA
- Phone
- 7017303188
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fishing, Hunting
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $70,244
- Expenses
- $37,111
- Assets
- $270,775
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRUCE LEISETH (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BRUCE LEISETH (PRESIDENT)
- BRENNA OHMAN (TREASURER/SE)
- MARK SANDNESS (BOARD MEMBER)
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
Capital city young guns is a youth educational organization that teaches self-confidence, ethics, and discipline by participating safely and responsibly in shotgun shooting sports.
What it reported doing in 2025
Ccyg provided a summer shotgun shooting program to bismarck/mandan area youth. The program ran from june 4th through august 20th on wednesday evenings. The instruction for the program is provided by certified instructors that volunteer with ccyg. The program was able to provide the program to 30 to 35 youth each session, with 2 sessions provided. Providing 2 sessions was a new aspect to the summer program, which allowed double the amount of students to go through the program as previous years. There is usually always a waitlist of other students that would like to participate, but the program is limited due to the number of certified instructors needed to provide the program. The board continues to look for ways to find additional certified instructors to expand the reach of the program to additional students. The program breaks the participants/students up by skill level to ensure that students are with others with similar experience to them and help the instructors know the skill level of students when providing their instruction. The program is completely free to students with shotguns or bb guns provided by ccyg along with the shells/bb's and the clay targets. The 2025 season saw youth shooting 12,500 rounds shot at 15,000 clay targets. This is possible from generous donations from donors and the volunteer instructors and board. The focus of the instruction and training is always safety first with other important skills secondary, such as eye dominance, basic mount and stance, gun fit, etc.
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 96% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 50.5%; rating input score 50
- Program expense ratio: 91.3%; rating input score 91
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: 47.2%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.3; rating input score 89; 89th 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: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 50.5% of revenue deployed · 91.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.