Lakes Area Pickleball Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 331976451
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Baxter, MN, USA
- Phone
- 2183301105
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Racquet Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $182,271
- Expenses
- $574
- Assets
- $182,996
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Eric Peterson (President)
People named in this filing
- Eric Peterson (President)
- Mark Gray (treasurer)
- Margi Wieber (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
The purpose for which this corporation is formed is to serve a charitable and educational purpose by: enhancing the health and welfare of the general public in the Brainerd/Baxter/East Gull Lakes area through the promotion of the sport of pickleball through educational activities which may include but are not limited to: sponsoring and conducting pickleball tournaments, offering pickleball exhibitions, training, lessons and instructional play; and to strive to reduce the financial burden of the Brainerd/Baxter/East Gull Lakes area municipality for the construction, improvements and maintenance of pickleball courts.
What it reported doing in 2025
In our second year of operation, we have been receiving donations and memberships to support the city of East Gull Lake, MN build pickleball courts as part of a community park. We have been assisting with design elements and guiding discussions on how the courts should be used and maintained. The funds raised will be donated to the City of East Gull Lake at such time that construction begins.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 38
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 93
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0.6%; rating input score 1
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 99.7%; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 318.81; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 0.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $574 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 1/100.