Dena Youth Basketball

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
450844509
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Pasadena, CA, USA
Phone
6268315190
Rating
35
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development Programs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$53,782
Expenses
$55,199
Assets
$903
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KEVIN M CONNER (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • KEVIN M CONNER (PRESIDENT)
  • ED CHAVOUS (CHAIRMAN/DIRECTOR)
  • CHRISTAN CONNER (SECRETARY 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

See schedule o

What it reported doing in 2025

*form 990-ez, part iii, line 31: dena youth basketballs (dena) primary purpose as a nonprofit organization was formed in order to provide elementary and middle school aged girls with the opportunity to learn and excel in basketball, and as a stepping stone to improved opportunities in obtaining their educational pursuits. Furthermore, dena employs basketball as a vehicle to teach ethics, perseverance, trust and discipline in order to overcome obstacles faced in our daily lives and academia for success. Other: *form 990-z, pt.iii, line 28: dena sustained a major loss and interruption in participation due to the eaton wildfire disaster in 2025. Many of the participants were displaced, homeless, and forced to attend new schools in other school districts due to the eaton wildfire tragedy. A substantial amount of our participants parents could not afford to pay their membership and tournament fees and was unable to transport the participants to practice and basketball games. Furthermore, dena was faced with mounting increases in their general costs such as the practice facilities, hosted tournaments and travel fees. Therefore, dena incurred numerous hardships and financial loss in 2025.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 95% 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. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

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

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -2.6%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -60% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -19.6% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2016 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.

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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
  • Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.