Ed Snider Youth Hockey & Education

What it reported doing in 2024

Life skills and leadership: snider hockey's life skills curriculum is age-specific and focuses on helping students acquire critical life attributes such as accountability, responsibility, self-confidence, and teamwork. The leadership council provides students with unique opportunities to build and demonstrate leadership skills while sharing student-led feedback during strategic decision-making. Play (purposeful learning for active youth) of the month are themed lessons designed to practice emotion-management / coping skills. Curricula is mindfully designed for rising adolescence. Social-emotional learning is applied through the coaching boys into men (cbim) and the olweus bullying prevention curricula. (continued on schedule o.)trained staff delivers tangible lessons related to intimate partner violence prevention, including weekly cbim playbook lessons before/during/after hockey practice, as well as a practical program to prevent and/or reduce bullying in elementary, middle, and junior high schools (students 6 to 15 years). Students are also trained in "soft and "hard" skills that enable good first impressions, the maintenance of positive relationships, and conflict resolution. Career development: career development programming enables students to learn marketable, job-embedded skills, while networking with partner organizations throughout secondary and post-secondary education. As student-athletes progress through academic courses, snider hockey connects students with paid internship and career exploration at comcast corporation, philadelphia youth network, allied universal, pspca, j. Wood platt trust, exelon, blb&b, techgirls, peco, wharton, university of the sciences, and other area universities. Snider hockey has adopted "realizing gainful and rewarding employment" as a hallmark of our impact statement and have prioritized the importance of achieving related outcomes. Snider hockey students completed a over 3,000 hours of life skills programming during the 2024-25 season. This includes service-learning opportunities, leadership council activities, virtual life skills activities, outdoor life skills activities, and life skills lessons delivered to our travel hockey teams. A total of 30 snider hockey students were placed in meaningful, paid summer internship positions through partnerships with comcast and university of the sciences in 2024 and 2025. A further 25 snider hockey students were placed into the j. Wood platt caddie scholarship program. 20 additional snider hockey students participated in initiatives aimed at introducing concepts in finance and stem through partnerships with the wharton school of business, tech girlz, and y-tac.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 77.3%; rating input score 77
• Program expense ratio: 82%; rating input score 82
• Fundraising efficiency: $8.62 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 96.3%; rating input score 96; 30th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • 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: 6%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.29; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 6.8%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings