Coachsafely Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 830725986
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019
- Location
- Homewood, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2052152088
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health Support Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,003,585
- Expenses
- $1,046,983
- Assets
- $225,721
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER CHADHA (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- TERRI WINSTON (CHIEF POLICY): $96,423 total reported compensation
- JENNIFER CHADHA (CEO): $65,133 total reported compensation
- JACK CROWE (BOARD CHAIRM): $65,133 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of coach safely organization is to reduce youth sports injuries by providing education for volunteer coaches of athletes, age 14 and under participating in organized sports and development of data for the constant improvement of youth sports community best practices in injury prevention.
What it reported doing in 2024
In april 2018 the coach safely act was passed by the Alabama legislature requiring unpaid or volunteer coahces of athletes age 14 and under participating in youth athletic associations of the state or political subdivisions thereof to take courses approved by the department of public health in youth sports injury recognition and prevention. The organizers of the foundation had developed several online training courses and were approved. To encourage participation the act mandated that the courses be offered at no cost to the unpaid volunteers. The foundation was established as a non-profit organization so that it courld raise funds to conduct the courses. The courses consist of 5 modules requiring 20-30 minutes study time with a test at the end. Upon passing the test a certificate is issued with copies to the Alabama recreation and parks association which has members in local, county, state, and provate recreation organizations throughout the state of Alabama. As a by-product of the courses will be development of data driven research for improvement of youth sports community best practices in injury reduction. The initial activity was the setup online of the courses and partnership with Alabama recreation and parks association for certification purposes. The directors also set up means to deliver the courses to municipalities throughout Alabama.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 90% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 93%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $127.25 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.3%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.7%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 30.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 30.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 35.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97% of revenue deployed · 93% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $973K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $96K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.