Larks Community Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873371927
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Bismarck, ND, USA
- Phone
- 7015577600
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Baseball, Softball
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $104,633
- Expenses
- $95,882
- Assets
- $63,451
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN BOLLINGER (PRESIDENT, T)
People named in this filing
- JOHN BOLLINGER (PRESIDENT, T)
- HEATHER NELSON (VICE PRESIDE)
- ROXANNE VAN ZOMEREN (EXECUTIVE DI)
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 larks community fund will develop programs to make a positive difference in bismarck, nd and the surrounding community. We believe in using fun to make a difference and strive to make an impact in our community through sports, specifically baseball and softball. We believe that sports have the ability to change lives for the better by teaching players teamwork, perseverance, failure and most importantly, how to have fun. Having fun is critical to the preservation of physical, mental and emotional stability of our youth. Using baseball and softball as our platform, we will channel community resources for the healthy development of future generations. We are dedicated to promoting health and athletic initiatives while focusing on experiential opportunities, developing community programs and improving facilities. We strive to use fun to make a difference.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community programs: the larks community fund establishes community programs support communities of bismarck and mandan through giving back dollars, food, or essential items for the community. 1. Scholarships - the larks community fund will support youth within the local community in their pursuit of post-secondary education. 2. Community volunteer program - the community volunteer program will look to offer local non-profits and youth teams the opportunity to raise money by volunteering at larks community fund events. The fund handles the staffing and fundraising through the 50/50 raffle, the miracle minute and the kids "funzone" during bismarck larks baseball games. 3. Food donation program - the larks community fund is establishing this program to take the unused food from the bismarck larks ballpark and donate it to people in need through the cooperative effort of local charities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 87% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.2%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 74.2%; rating input score 74
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: 8.4%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 35.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.2% of revenue deployed · 74.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $71K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.