Merion Cricket Club

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
230868340
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Haverford, PA, USA
Phone
6106425800
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$20,273,802
Expenses
$18,187,996
Assets
$55,605,493
Liabilities
$15,818,185

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

36 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CARTER D WILLIAMS (PRESIDENT)
  • ELINOR H BUCK (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • THOMAS N CARR (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • LAUREN B ROYER (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • PAUL B BARTLE (PAST PRESIDENT)
  • JAMES H BROMLEY (PAST PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • CALEB TINDALL (GENERAL MANAGER & C.O.O.): $543,521 total reported compensation
  • DAVID BLUMERIS (DIRECTOR OF TENNIS): $385,207 total reported compensation
  • MICHELLE GLOVIAK (C.F.O.): $353,380 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The merion cricket club is a family club established to provide its members with excellent facilities and programs encouraging participation in sports and other activities, while at the same time enabling them to socialize in an attractive enviroment providing first-class food and beverage service, and is an institution which conducts itself with honor and integrity in all endeavors.

What it reported doing in 2025

Tax exempt club actitivies

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 93% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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

SUPPORTED - 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: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 66
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 54
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 89.4%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 10.3%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.06; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 89.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $544K · 36 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.