Keep Playing Baseball
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811920544
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Davis, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5307609898
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $65,827
- Expenses
- $54,945
- Assets
- $25,774
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ETHAN GUEVIN (PRESIDENT, EXECUTIVE DIREC)
People named in this filing
- ETHAN GUEVIN (PRESIDENT, EXECUTIVE DIREC)
- TOM BRINER (BOARD MEMBER)
- ERIC JOHNSON (BOARD MEMBER)
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
Provide free resources for youth baseball players.
What it reported doing in 2025
Direct support for baseball players: registration assistance program: in 2025, we supported davis little league's registration assistance program (rap) for the fifth year in a row. Our support for this program helped pay participation fees for little league participants whose families couldn't afford them. In a capacity building effort, we also assisted davis little league in rasing $11,000 for their registration assistance preserve. We also tabled at montgomery elementary school to assist spanish speaking parents register for davis little league and apply for registration assisstance. 3 players benefitted from this service. To date, our registration assistance has helped pay participation fees for roughly 50 players and counting.college scholarship program: in partnership with the vandergriff-brent family fund, we continued the keep playing baseball college scholarhsip program. The program provides tuition scholarships for first-generation college students involved with baseball at a 4-year college or university. The academic scholarship provides $2,500 in tuition relief per year to each recipient and is renewable for up to 4 academic years. Our first recipient received continued to receive aid for the 2024-25 school year and graduated in the spring of 2025. We onboarded our second recipient, who began receiving aid for the fall semester of 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 16.5%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 54.6%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $59K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.