Junior Optimist Baseball League

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
900773710
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Concord, CA, USA
Phone
9256804523
Rating
54
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Baseball, Softball

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$33,728
Expenses
$70,889
Assets
$19,360

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • STEVE FISHER (President)

People named in this filing

  • CHRISTINA RODRIGUEZ (SOCIAL MEDIA)
  • STEVE FISHER (President)
  • TROY DUPREE (PEE WEE DIV MGR)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide baseball/softball program for youth. Activities include regular season and post season play. All participants receive uniforms, awards and use of playing and practice fields and equipment.

What it reported doing in 2024

In addition to its regular-season play, jobl hosts an annual after-season invitational tournament for its various divisions and at times, hosts state and regionals babe ruth tournaments. Additionally, many boys and girls teams have participated in various district, state and regional tournaments.the babe ruth organization offers several age groups an after-season tournamenttrail where winners advance. Boys: 7-8s, 9's, 10's, 11's, 12's, 13's, 14's,13-15's and 16-18's; girls: 8&under and 14/16&under. Babe ruth also offers anational invitational for the 8&under, 10&under and 14&under divisions. Each year, jobl sends teams to these very exciting tournaments.over the years, jobl has added many benefits to its program. Unlike most leagues, included in its registration fees are participation awards for all players, as well as individual trophies to first and second place winners in each division.while jobl has had traveling teams for many years, the past few years has seenjobl convert its traveling programs for the boys and girls divisions toyear-around play: glory for the girls and patriots for the boys. After theregular-season play, each year glory and patriot teams travel to various sites for all world, usssa, asa and nsa tournament play, as well as to the district, state, regional and world series play offered by babe ruth.

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. 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: 41
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 16
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 51.1%; rating input score 51
  • Program expense ratio: 24.3%; 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: -110.2%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 20; 20th 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: -24.2% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -19.1% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -7.1% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 51.1% of revenue deployed · 24.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $17K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 24/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.