Little Warriors Sports Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 863188347
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Bellevue, WA, USA
- Phone
- 4254283657
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Soccer
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $539,278
- Expenses
- $524,749
- Assets
- $58,489
- Liabilities
- $14,044
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- YUHAO HU (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- YUHAO HU (PRESIDENT): $50,100 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization is dedicated to the ongoing development of youth athletes, coaches, clubs, and leagues in an inclusive, safe, affordable, and fun environment, to provide programs and opportunities for players and staff at a local, regional, and national level, and to develope players to their maximum potential and life-long enrichment.
What it reported doing in 2024
Lwsa provides various programs, and one of the clubs main goals is to provide programs and opportunities for players and staff at a local, regional, and national level. Our organization is committed to developing players to their maximum potential and life-long enrichment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% 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
STRONG - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.1%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 96.9%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 2.7%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.5%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 45.7% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 42.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -12.2% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.1% of revenue deployed · 96.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $509K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $50K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 38/100.