Gulf States Section Pga of America
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 720869519
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Metairie, LA, USA
- Phone
- 5047992444
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $740,011
- Expenses
- $712,297
- Assets
- $702,832
- Liabilities
- $183,357
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAKE NARRO (PRESIDENT)
- MATT BRUNETZ (VICE PRESIDENT)
- TIM BASEL (HONORARY PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT BROWN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ROBERT BROWN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $162,230 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote the enjoyment & involvement in the game and to contribute to the growth of the golf professional and the golf industry. The gulf states section will accomplish this mission by enhancing the skills of golf professionals and the opportunities for amateurs, manufacturers and the general public. As a result, the gulf states section will elevate the standards of the professional golfers' vocation, stimulate interest in the game of golf, and promote the overall vitality of the game.
What it reported doing in 2024
Education: golf professionals are the foundation of golf. The professionals are expert instructors and community leaders who help provide affordable and accessible golf to everyone, everywhere within the gulf states region.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 94% 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.
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: 73
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 40
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: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: 3.7%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.99; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.8%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $162K · 9 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.