Lions Youth Softball

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 273660662
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2017–2024
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2024
Location: Marion, IA, USA
Phone: 3193316754
Rating: 89
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Baseball, Softball

Reported finances

Revenue: $111,483
Expenses: $107,990
Assets: $65,180

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

NATHAN J FRANZEN (President)
SAMATHA RYAN (Vice President)

People named in this filing

NATHAN J FRANZEN (President)
SAMATHA RYAN (Vice President)
PAUL FORBES (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Lions youth softball is a youth sports training and development organization specializing in fast pitch softball for girls. The organization supports nearly 100 girls and their families from ages 8 to 16.

What it reported doing in 2024

Operating model

Revenue model: Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 100
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 40
Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
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: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: 3.1%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 43; 43rd 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: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $138K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 6 filing years from 2017 to 2024
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
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: Operating margin scored 43/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.