Desert Youth Hockey Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510152564
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Tempe, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4809410147
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Amateur Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,811,446
- Expenses
- $1,704,482
- Assets
- $1,103,103
- Liabilities
- $43,112
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN CURRY (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- NICHOLAS NAUMENKO (DIRECTOR OF): $102,694 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Desert youth hockey association (junior sun devils hockey team) is established to provide the youth of Arizona with the highest quality USA hockey sanctioned amateur ice hockey program available. We are committed to obtaining the highest levels of competitive player development, while maintaining a realistic balance in our commitment to our players in both their development as athletes and as maturing young people. Our comprehensive program is designed to maintain and improve our well- established reputation of teaching physical and emotional growth, based on commitment, respect and responsibility. We focus on consistency in our actions with respect to our members, including the recruitment and maintenance of outstanding coaches to staff every level of our travel program, coaches who believe in and are committed to the long-term skill and character development of our players. We will base our administrative, financial and disciplinary decisions on sound business and character-based pri
What it reported doing in 2025
Desert youth hockey association (dyha) is a non-profit youth- focused hockey association serving over 500 Arizona children per season. Dyha provides hockey instruction by certified coaches and instructors to advance hockey skills levels and instill life lessons for children ages 4- 18. Dyha conducts fundraising to help provide scholarships to roughly 10- 12 families in need every season and continues to explore opportunities to advance this initiative in order to more wholly serve our members and potential members. Dyha recently obtained a license agreement from Arizona state university as the first youth organization being granted the right to use sparky and the name sun devils for our new branding as the junior sun devils.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 92% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.7%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 93.3%; rating input score 93
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.9%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.7% of revenue deployed · 93.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $103K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 48/100.