Maize and Blue Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 301430908
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Saint Joseph, MI, USA
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $66,037
- Expenses
- $8,572
- Assets
- $57,465
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Richard Dyer (Board President)
- Kerry Wright (Board Vice President)
- Kevin Guzzo (Board Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Richard Dyer (Board President)
- Kerry Wright (Board Vice President)
- Kevin Guzzo (Board Vice President)
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 purposes of the Corporation shall include but not necessarily be limited to benefiting the public schools of St. Joseph by promoting athletic participation leadership and programs which support the mission of the St. Joseph Public Schools. The Corporations mission is to raise steward and distribute resources to enrich and support the experience of St. Joseph Public School athletics.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Maize and Blue Fund solicited grant requests from St. Joseph Public School athletic programs. During the initial year of existence grants totaling 5,550 were approved but were not funded as of 12 31 25. The grants were funded subsequent to 12 31 25.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 13
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 3.9%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: 29.2%; rating input score 29
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 87%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.7; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 3.9% of revenue deployed · 29.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 4/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.