Massachusetts Youth Lacrosse Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 522373589
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2010
- Location
- Ashland, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6177638700
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Racquet Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,684,560
- Expenses
- $1,560,967
- Assets
- $1,152,231
- Liabilities
- $5,234
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARY AYOTTE (PRESIDENT)
- KEVIN BARNEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KEVIN BARNEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $122,442 total reported compensation
- DAWN KISSANE (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $36,474 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's mission is to teach, grow, and honor the game of lacrosse throughout Massachusetts by providing leadership, guidance, training, and structure to all town programs interested in participating in the organization's spring schedule, select league, and jamboree.form 990, part iv, line 12a: form 990 is being prepared with the best available information at the time of filing. Upon completion of the audit, if there are any significant changes, appropriate action will be taken.
What it reported doing in 2024
Annual lacrosse jamboree made up of teams representing local cities and towns throughout the state of Massachusetts, as well as operation of select league, and various sponsored events to educate individuals regarding the game of lacrosse and generate interest in the sport.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.1%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 95.6%; rating input score 96
- 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: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.3%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.2%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.1% of revenue deployed · 95.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $122K · 23 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.