Cleveland Alliance Soccer Assoc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
272607608
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Parma, OH, USA
Phone
4408458360
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,002,037
Expenses
$978,396
Assets
$35,279
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Michael Sweeney (President)
  • Walter Schlathauer (Vice President)
  • George Nanchoff (Vice President)
  • Larry Zajac (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Michael Sweeney (President)
  • Mario Grgic (Secretary)
  • Margaret Balodis (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

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What it reported doing in 2025

Cleveland alliance soccer associations initial activities focused on youth soccer instruction through regular instruction (90%) and seasonal instructional camps (10%). Since its foundation in 2007 the cleveland alliance soccer association has annually organized leagues, tournaments and events for hundreds of teams and thousands of young athletes. Many of the participants have the broadened their social experiences and greatly increased their opportunities to meet people of other religions, races and nationalities. Cleveland alliance soccer associations activities recently span both the indoor and outdoor soccer seasons and are divided into ongoing instructional activities for organized teams (90%), regular and seasonal instructional activities not limited to children participating on casa teams (8%), and clinics for youth soccer coaches (2%). Organized league activities consist of one to two games per week over an 8-10 week season and one or two tournaments per season. The tournaments are open to enrollment from teams across the USA and we have teams come from canada, mexico and europe. Member clubs are encouraged to include all young athletes regardless of the current family situation. This allows children to participate in a group sport environment and improve their soccer skills even if they do not have the time, support or finances to commit to a team. Cleveland alliance soccer association also hosts regular skill clinics throughout the year designed to allow children to focus on soccer-specific skills, such as dribbling or passing and trapping. These clinics are open to casa team members, participants in other leagues, and any other interested youth. Seasonal instructional activities also include a day soccer camp held for a full week each summer. All children interested in improving their soccer skills are welcome to these camps the organizers of cleveland alliance soccer association intend to continue their current activities in the future, with time allocations to remain consistent annually - approximately 90% of time devoted to ongoing activities for organized teams, 8% for regular and seasonal instructional activities for children not limited to team participants, and 2% to clinics for youth soccer coaches. Cleveland alliance soccer association will continue work with families to ensure that all interested children can participate, regardless of their parents financial situations, and to keep all skill clinics and day camps open to all children, not merely those who are members of cleveland alliance soccer association teams. Cleveland alliance soccer association is distinctive in that it provides all interested young athletes with an opportunity to learn and play in a competitive, structured environment that generally is available only to those children whose parents can afford high fees for instruction and equipment. The programs organizers work with parents to make the sport accessible to all children by allowing parents and guardians to pay only what they can afford. Nonprofit status would allow cleveland alliance soccer association to undertake fundraising activities that would make the entire youth sports process more affordable for all participants and allow the league to underwrite the cost of instruction and equipment for children whose families are unable to shoulder the full burden of these expenses. Nonprofit status will aid cleveland alliance soccer association in its mission to help children become better soccer players and, more importantly, to aid them in developing the cognitive, social, and emotional skills they will need to meet the challenges life holds for them in years to come.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 12
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 97.6%; rating input score 98
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th 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: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2.4%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 97.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $978K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
  • 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.