Hoops Collaborative Youth Development Pr
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 921224607
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Brockton, MA, USA
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $113,644
- Expenses
- $98,388
- Assets
- $34,924
- Liabilities
- $1,761
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- Mitchell Hercule (Executive Dir.)
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 Hoops Collaborative Development Program Inc is a community-based basketball and educational equity organization that teaches basketball skill development, physical training and life skills to young people. The primary goal of The Hoops Collaborative Youth Program Inc is to provide a safe and supportive sport-based environment that helps the BIPOC youth m and around the greater Boston area to cope with the physical and mental disparities that prevents and hinders social development and upward mobility for young people. Through community partnerships, the program seeks to establish joyful engagement and connection among young people so that they feel seen and supported within the educational, political, justice and social systems that surrounds them.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Hoops Collaborative Development Program Inc. has empowered over 500 BIPOC youth in Greater Boston through: Basketball & Skill Development: Hosted multiple clinics, with 85 of participants improving both athletic abilities and academic engagement. Mental & Physical Wellness: Partnered with local organizations to provide trauma-informed coaching, with 70 of youth reporting increased confidence and stress management skills. Life Skills & Leadership: Launched a mentorship program connecting teens with professionals, resulting in 30+ youth with potential internships and college prep opportunities. Community Advocacy: Collaborated with schools and justice reform groups to bridge gaps, ensuring youth voices are heard in policy discussions affecting their futures. By combining sports, education, and systemic support, were breaking barriers to create pathways for joy, resilience, and upward mobility.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 22
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 20.8%; rating input score 21
- Program expense ratio: 24%; rating input score 24
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.4%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.3%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 64.4% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 20.8% of revenue deployed · 24% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $24K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 21/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.