Essex Paddle Tennis Club Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 060966612
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2009–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Essex, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8603048244
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $111,004
- Expenses
- $136,491
- Assets
- $203,876
- Liabilities
- $5,700
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John DeMarsilis (President / Director)
- Tom Rooney (Vice-President / Director)
People named in this filing
- John DeMarsilis (President / Director)
- Tom Rooney (Vice-President / Director)
- John Morgan (Treasurer/ 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
Platform tennis playing facilities (4 courts and clubhouse) serving 200+ households in Essex, CT environs.
What it reported doing in 2025
Essex Paddle Tennis Club provides platform tennis playing and recreational facilities (4 courts plus clubhouse) for 200+ households in the Essex, CT, environs. The club runs organized leagues for men, women and young adults. EPTC also supports an ambitious tournament schedule throughout its season.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 89% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -23%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.49; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $136K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2025
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.