Greater Lowell Hawks
Legal name: Greater Lowell Youth Skating Assn Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237267247
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Lowell, MA, US
- Phone
- 9784525351
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Winter Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $295,794
- Expenses
- $281,578
- Assets
- $158,545
- Liabilities
- $59,339
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jason Trovato (Past President)
- Brendan Akashian (President)
People named in this filing
- Brian Akashian (Director)
- Joe Kelly (Director)
- Nicole Lenzi (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Greater Lowell Youth Hockey strives to offer a high-quality, affordable opportunity for kids to learn and play the great game of hockey. GLYSA provides age and skill appropriate player development and coaching, built on strong foundational skills, fair play and sportsmanship in all our programs from Learn to Skate/Play through Midget/18U.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide instruction in ice hockey and general skating to children in the Greater Lowell area.
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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.3%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 99.1%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 4.8%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 94.3% of revenue deployed · 99.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $279K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 17 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2015 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.