Franklin Wildcats Youth Football & Cheer

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
020630689
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Elk Grove, CA, USA
Phone
9166076144
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$240,514
Expenses
$218,113
Assets
$47,913
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Maryssa Phillips (President)
  • Jaime Dyson (Vice President Cheer)

People named in this filing

  • Maryssa Phillips (President)
  • Brandon Xiong (Director of Football)
  • Jaime Dyson (Vice President Cheer)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Franklin Jr. Wildcats Youth Football and Cheer Inc. hereinafter referred to as the Jr. Wildcats exists to promote the emotional mental and physical development of youths ages six to fourteen. The purpose of the Jr. Wildcats is to offer the opportunity to participate in community supported football and cheer programs which stress the intrinsic value of every individual participant. The goal of the Jr. Wildcats association is to promote personal achievement and improvement through discipline and the spirit of competition. The youth players will be coached in a positive environment which will build character teamwork the challenge of competition and personal responsibility. The Jr. Wildcats is dedicated to organizing the finest program to enable the youth participant to have the best experience possible.

What it reported doing in 2025

The organization provides youth tackle football programming for elementary and middle school athletes including practices games certified coaching equipment safety training and league participation. The program promotes teamwork leadership discipline and physical fitness. The organization offers youth cheer programming to support football activities and competitive opportunities. The program involves sideline cheer participation during the football season and optional competition cheer opportunities. Throughout the year the organization revamped its cheer program by dividing it into sideline and competition components. This adjustment enables families to engage in sideline cheer separately while providing competition cheer as an elective program. This modification increased accessibility and matched fees with competition-related expenses. Importantly this restructuring did not change the organizations exempt purpose.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Accountability: 6
  • Sustainability: 47
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 89.5%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • 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; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • 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: 9.3%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 89.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 12 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $218K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.