Kindersport Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821071823
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Brentwood, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6159727400
- Rating
- 38
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Amateur Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $90,167
- Expenses
- $115,777
- Assets
- $6,742
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GARY KINDER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- JOHN WALTERS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- GARY KINDER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- JOHN WALTERS (PRESIDENT)
- MARGIE MAHER (SECRETARY)
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
This corporation is dedicated to enriching the lives of youth student-athletes through the sport of track & field. The mission is to instill excellence in its athletes both on and off the field while enriching the track & field community
What it reported doing in 2025
Track and field
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0.1%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -28.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 60.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0.1% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $57 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.