Home Run Baseball Camp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521927974
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2022378311
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Baseball, Softball
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $797,877
- Expenses
- $887,477
- Assets
- $66,724
- Liabilities
- $1,118
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN MCCARTHY (DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN MCCARTHY (DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT): $225,798 total reported compensation
- TIMOTHY GOINS (TREASURER/DIRECTOR OF OPER): $50,846 total reported compensation
- ANTTONIO BROWN (DIRECTOR): $400 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 mission of home run baseball camp, inc. ("hrbc") is: (1) provide school aged children of diverse socioeconomic backgrounds the opportunity to learn and play a team sport in an environment that above all teaches and stresses the values of good citizenship, sportsmanship, hustle, competitive energy, team cooperation, safety, education, environmental responsibility, and respect for others; (2) to give this opportunity to children of financially needy families by granting, to the extent possible, full or partial scholarships to all who request such support; (3) to train and offer paid seasonal employment to older youth from all socioeconomic backgrounds to learn the craft of coaching and be positive role models for the campers; and (4) where possible, to assist other charitable organizations that share hrbc's values.
What it reported doing in 2024
Worked with approximately 1,000 school aged children using baseball as a vehicle to teach citizenship, sportsmanship and team cooperation. Camp revenue is collected in the spring and summer.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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
STRONG - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 92.4%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 94.8%; rating input score 95; 42nd 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.2%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10.7% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 92.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $820K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $226K · 9 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, 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
- 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: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.