Friends of the 1980 Miracle on Ice Hockey Team Corp

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
831247014
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Lake Placid, NY, USA
Phone
5185240985
Rating
34
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Commemorative Events

Reported finances

Revenue
$89,397
Expenses
$193,138
Assets
$6,721
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jeff Potter (President and Director)
  • Katie Million (Vice-President and Director)

People named in this filing

  • Jeff Potter (President and Director)
  • Katie Million (Vice-President and Director)
  • Mary Elizabeth Wightman (Secretary and 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

The organization supports the legacy of the 1980 Miracle on Ice US Hockey Team with fundraising initiatives and to promote amateur athletics with a focus on Lake Placid, NY. A portion of funds raised will be used to create a statue of the 1980 Miracle Hockey Team in Lake Placid to celebrate the achievements of this historic sports moment.

What it reported doing in 2025

The organization maintains and expands the public knowledge and appreciation of the 1980 Miracle on Ice Hockey Team by expansive use of social media to mark important dates and details about the timeframe leading up to the gold medal victory and current information about the members of the team. The organization promotes, protects, and advances the memory of the greatest sports moment and introduces the team to an entire new generation of fans.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -116%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -24.7% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -15.2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.