Green Sports Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273330368
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5032785393
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Sports Associations &Training Facilities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,796,823
- Expenses
- $1,963,761
- Assets
- $962,745
- Liabilities
- $469,675
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROGER MCCLENDON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ROGER MCCLENDON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $218,805 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The green sports alliance leverages the cultural and market influence of sports to promote healthy, sustainable communities where we live, work, and play. We do so by inspiring sports leagues, teams, venues, their partners, and millions of fans to embrace energy and water efficiency; renewable energy; sustainable food; responsible procurement; socially responsible practices; health and wellness certifications along with environmentally preferable actions.
What it reported doing in 2024
2024 green sports alliance summit: 2024 was the green sports alliance breakthrough year of combining the power of sports and music and integrating culture with the awesome partnership of aeg and others.this was clearly evident in the record setting number of women speakers, participation of minority speakers, and young influencers at the 2025 summit.we created a strategic partnership with ay young and project 17 and powered the ay performance at the iconic peacock theater with clean energy using batteries. (see continuation on schedule o)this partnership with ay along with the panel of maggie baird (billie ellish's mom) demonstrated that the spirit of collaboration with sports and music sustainability leaders will create incredible synergy, influence, and impact. The aeg leadership and commitment as the host venue was a shining example of how we can go faster, further, together to drive social and environmental progress! The community impact event (estella park restoration and beautification project) was an epic event and was beloved by our members and volunteers. This is an area of focus we will continue to grow and improve as part of the summit programming as we relaunched the green sports alliance foundation late 2024.2024 talent building and organizational restructure: the green sports alliance ed with input from key stakeholders and approval by the board formed a new organizational structure and recruited critical talent to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the team. We hired a new marketing and comms sr. Manager and new manager of sports membership. We restructured the organization to create a more cohesive team and promoted michael krause to sr. Director of operations and sustainable events and matt adler to sr. Director of partnerships and memberships with each having direct reports. This is projected to reduce turnover and cultivate leadership and growth opportunities for staff members to improve communication to deliver more cohesive execution of goals by the entire team while improving operational efficiency. This will also provide the executive director more time to participate in more leadership level engagements (conferences and panels) to be more influential by deliver messaging in these leadership circles (wef, un, cop, sustainable brands) etc and creating more significant partnerships to drive positive social and environmental change.list of major accomplishments: available upon request or via website.- 2024 summit impact report - 2024 aop recap- new board member appointed- green sports day impact report- secured college football playoff green contract for 2025- issued two new play books- completion of 12 monthly webinars and newletters - 2024 global green sports alliance summit'- 2024 kc symposium- created strategic partnership with ocean conservancy and global campaign supp
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 91% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 96
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.3%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.49; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $219K · 16 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $185K reported
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 18/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.