Kickers Fc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
825225965
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Dayton, MN, USA
Phone
6468315128
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$601,038
Expenses
$514,155
Assets
$277,189
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MIKE AUSTIN (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JOE ANDERSON (VICE-PRESIDE)
  • MIKE AUSTIN (PRESIDENT)
  • NEVRESA HADZIC (TREASURER)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Kickers fc mission is to positively impact the development of youth in our community by providing soccer and life-enriching opportunities to young players of all ages and playing abilities. This creates a lifelong passion for soccer, and to help raise the level of soccer in our city and state. We strive to play an active role in the leadership, development and personal growth of our players and staff. This is done by being an active member of our community through service, partnerships and programs. The ultimate goal as a club is to encourage, inspire and empower each player and coach to be able to reach the highest level possible within the game. We help create leaders and individuals that will inspire others to do the same.

What it reported doing in 2025

Kickers fc includes: - full time director of coaching & player development who will oversee the academy u4-u10 and the travel program u8-u18yrs. - increasing the opportunity for all players who want to participate at the level they want while being coached and mentored by experienced, licensed coaches. - having an age-appropriate curriculum for developing cognitive, mental, social, and motor skills under the supervision of the club technical staff. - parent coaches having access to professional staff resources on a regular basis. - having a variety of fee structures that provides the best value within club soccer. - establish a college soccer promotion program focused on exposing players to the college recruiting process throughout their high school career. - promote regional recognition of our soccer tournaments. - annual developmental program of 300+ players. - promotion and development of partnership programs with youth soccer organizations from Minnesota. - attracting additional highly qualified coaches from across the state. - to increase opportunities for players with financial need. - soccer mindset sessions hosted each year for all coaches & managers to get the best our of their players. - encouraging communication between parents, coaches and club staff. - creating partnerships with parents, schools and colleges. - compete successfully at the state & regional levels. - promote players from the club to mn united fc academy and tcsl reps programs for further development within the state of mn.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 57
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.6%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 89.6%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: $0.13 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 14.5%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 26.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 33.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 29.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 76.6% of revenue deployed · 89.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $461K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.

  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.