International Sports Heritage Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510329282
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Knoxville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 8656339000
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $106,211
- Expenses
- $92,730
- Assets
- $137,077
- Liabilities
- $59
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kent Sturman (President)
- Meggan Gardner (Past President)
- Caitlin Dyer (2nd Vice President)
- Shane Mailman (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Kent Sturman (President)
- Meggan Gardner (Past President)
- Justine Kaempfer (1st Vice Prsident)
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
Educate, Promote and support organizations and individuals.
What it reported doing in 2025
Annual Conference includes multiple professional education and sessions and informal educational opportunities. It also Manages and maintains a enhancement of the organization's website, that Helps promote member education and enhance knowledge of sports museums to the general public.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 62% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Transfer-based 990-EZ. The 990-EZ reports grants or member benefits, but it does not separate enough spending to show the nonprofit’s full delivery mix.
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 2
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 4.2%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.7%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.48; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 4.2% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 4/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.