It Starts With Soccer
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452423633
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5123309318
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $62,991
- Expenses
- $75,966
- Assets
- $91,675
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- DOUG BROWN (Chairman)
- LAUREN GAMES (Officer)
- JENNIFER PENA (Officer)
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
Combine soccer with community outreach projects to promote lasting change inimpoverished african communities .
What it reported doing in 2025
The Bethesda Village Project involved two schools: Bethesda Primary School & Bethesda Secondary School. The village and schools are located about 30 kms outside of Victoria Falls and receive little outside help. We did a community transformation which involved several projects. 1.) We drilled a well; installed a solar pump; installed piping to the school; and put spigots at the schools. The well is used by the entire village and provides clean water for all. At the schools, the water not only provides clean water for drinking, cooking, and cleaning, it also is key to maintaining the new farm we built for the schools. 2.) We built a greenhouse; built a goat corral; and planted an orchard (primarily orange and mango trees). We also supplied the goats for the farm (15). We provided seedlings and gardening tools to get the farm going. 3.) We built a soccer field, complete with metal goals, provided school uniforms and balls.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.9%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 82.8%; rating input score 83
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -20.6%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.21; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.9% of revenue deployed · 82.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.