Fvb Umpires Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364279932
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Belvidere, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8156228763
- Rating
- 44
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Job Training
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $39,256
- Expenses
- $28,035
- Assets
- $40,833
- Liabilities
- $21,360
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Alan Mccormick (President)
People named in this filing
- Tim Goraj (Secrtary)
- Alan Mccormick (President)
- Vince Mastandrea (Board Member)
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 main purpose of the Fox Valley Blues Umpires Association (FVBUA) is to improve the quality of baseball and softball officiating in a targeted geography (Chicago). This is done by providing educational opportunities to our members and community clients, allowing them to grow as baseball officials through the following methods: Umpire Training - FVBUA sponsors several clinics each year as our primary function. These clinics are educational in nature, with the soul purpose of assessing an individual umpire's needs and offering that individual targeted instruction. Such clinics are not mandated for membership, but are offered free of charge to our membership. Some of the techniques we use at these clinics are videotaped, hands-on instruction; classroom discussion; handout materials; guest speakers; and rules interpretation discussions. The clinics run throughout the spring and summer and are hosted at an area high school or college facility.
What it reported doing in 2025
FVBUA hosted over 10 clinics and training sessions, touching over 500 umpires in all sessions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 74% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
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 total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 10
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 9.5%; rating input score 9
- Program expense ratio: 13.2%; rating input score 13
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 28.6%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.46; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.52; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 9.5% of revenue deployed · 13.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 9/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.