Kaneland Knights Sports Booster Nfp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 465485688
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Elburn, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6304422377
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Support N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,373
- Expenses
- $23,357
- Assets
- $91,736
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ERIC MARLER (CO-PRESIDENT)
- LAURA MARLER (CO-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ERIC MARLER (CO-PRESIDENT)
- LAURA MARLER (CO-PRESIDENT)
- KIRSTEN PREUSS (VICE PRESIDE)
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
To provide positive support, encourage interest, and cooperate with the athletic department and school administration in the promotion of all athletics sanctioned by district 302.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide positive support, encourage interest and fund kaneland athletic activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 80% for direct work, and 20% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.4%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 83.9%; rating input score 84
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 57.8%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.93; rating input score 80; 80th 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: -10.9% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35.4% of revenue deployed · 83.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $20K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.