Collegiate Licensed Properties Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204504981
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Sterling Heights, MI, USA
- Phone
- 5869797800
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $40,238
- Expenses
- $7,135
- Assets
- $238,920
- Liabilities
- $950
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DALE ARENS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DALE ARENS (PRESIDENT)
- SHELLY SCHRIMPF (VICE PRESIDE)
- STEVE FULLER (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Collegiate licensed properties association (clpa) assists member colleges, universities, sports bowls, sports conferences, and sports associations with their brand licensing and trademark management programs to help protect member brands from the production and sale of counterfeit merchandise.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization manages a product authentication and specialized labelling program which helps more than 600 member organizations protect their brands from the production and sale of counterfeit merchandise.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 85
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 82.3%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 33.49; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.