DirtBags Baseball Club
Legal name: Dirtbags Baseball Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475408469
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- South Elgin, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8479224507
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Baseball, Softball
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $297,248
- Expenses
- $192,772
- Assets
- $129,847
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEFFREY BERNAU (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JEFFREY BERNAU (PRESIDENT)
- TODD LAMBEL (COACH)
- JIM BERNAU (COACH)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Dirtbags believe achieving lasting success is simple. Do things the right way. Focus on fundamentals, honesty, integrity and consistent hard work. We believe in climbing the ladder of success one rung at a time. When Dirtbags leave our program, they know they have earned their baseball success. Our coaching staff ensures fundamentals are sound while continually assessing what each player needs to reach their full potential. Our program also offers a unique benefit by providing certified staff in speed, strength and agility training techniques in a state of the art training center designed specifically to improve baseball skills. College and Professional Baseball Our athletes want to continue their baseball careers playing college and professional baseball. We support them by having them fully prepared to get to that level and stay there by teaching our players how to be prepared for...
What it reported doing in 2024
Work with our players to become better people and better players for high school baseball and beyond. Life lessons taught through the game of baseball.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 27
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 24
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 25.1%; rating input score 25
- Program expense ratio: 38.7%; rating input score 39
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 35.1%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -19.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.4% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 25.1% of revenue deployed · 38.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $75K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 20 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 39/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.