Costa Mesa Pony Baseball
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800924655
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Costa Mesa, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7143183482
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Baseball, Softball
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $121,560
- Expenses
- $104,270
- Assets
- $33,781
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JACK MORALES (President)
People named in this filing
- JACK MORALES (President)
- LOU DESANDRO (Treasurer)
- MARK HATFIELD (Director)
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
To provide an organized youth baseball activity for players aged 9 to 14 in the newport-mesa area.
What it reported doing in 2024
The league continues to provide an organized youth baseball activity for players aged 8 to 16 in the Newport-Mesa area. The program serves approximately 175 players. In addition to the board members, the program has the support of an additional 45-50 coaches and other volunteers who donate an estimated 4,400 hrs. to the league. The league has benefited from $1,000 in donations and grants. The long term goals and objectives of the league is to continue to serve the community as it has always done while experiencing steady growth. Expanded Fall and Spring programs have been implemented. To accommodate this growth, new fund raising efforts have been initiated.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and the available information about grant readiness state registration leaves an important question unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.2%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 95.9%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.2%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.2% of revenue deployed · 95.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $100K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.