Miracle League of Dubuque
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812454858
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Dubuque, IA, USA
- Phone
- 8124839249
- Rating
- 44
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Baseball, Softball
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $34,490
- Expenses
- $10,249
- Assets
- $128,484
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Merlin Santjer (President)
- Jana Beau (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Merlin Santjer (President)
- Jana Beau (Vice President)
- Kathleen Klapatuskas (Secretary)
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
To provide opportunities for children with disabilities to play baseball regardless of their abilities, promote community support and sponsorship of Miracle Leagues, promote the construction of special facilities that meet the unique need of players and their families.
What it reported doing in 2024
Organizational and professional planning and securing funds to build a Miracle League baseball field, all-inclusive playground and support building.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 87
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 70.3%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.54; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -83.6% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -35% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -35.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.