Chapel Hill Ravens Athletics Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
992048345
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Phone
9199371071
Rating
39
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Football

Reported finances

Revenue
$53
Expenses
$0
Assets
$55
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Arthur Raines (President)

People named in this filing

  • Jessica Salazar (Treasurer)
  • Shakia Young (Secretary)
  • Arthur Raines (President)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Chapel Hill Ravens Athletics, Inc. exists to provide affordable, locally-rooted youth football programming that removes financial and geographic barriers to participation, develops character, and delivers consistent mentorship to young people in the Chapel Hill/Carrboro community during critical adolescent years.

What it reported doing in 2025

Chapel Hill Ravens Athletics, Inc. operates a community-based youth football program serving Chapel Hill and Carrboro, North Carolina. During the tax year, the organization served 135 families, with 96% of participants residing within Chapel Hill town limits. The program provided structured athletic instruction, coaching, and mentorship to youth who previously lacked access to local organized football programming, as the nearest comparable programs required families to travel 3040 minutes outside the county. To ensure equitable access, 81% of participating families received financial assistance through the organization's need-based scholarship model, eliminating the pay-to-play barrier that disproportionately excludes low-to-moderate-income households from youth sports participation. Programming emphasized character development, discipline, teamwork, and social-emotional learning alongside athletic skill development, delivered through regular practices, structured competition, and consistent coach-to-youth mentorship relationships. The organization's work addresses a documented gap in community-based youth development infrastructure, providing a safe, affordable, and locally-rooted environment during critical adolescent years. In a post-pandemic landscape marked by increased youth disconnection and reduced physical activity, Chapel Hill Ravens Athletics continues to expand access to enrichment programming that produces measurable developmental outcomes for the young people and families it serves.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

REVIEW - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 88
  • Accountability: 62
  • Sustainability: 8
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 7th 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: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed
  • Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 38 of 39 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • 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 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.