Motor City Madness Fastpitch
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 451967433
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Novi, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2487871500
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Baseball, Softball
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $153,747
- Expenses
- $169,564
- Assets
- $5,428
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRIS LAWLER (President/Secretary)
People named in this filing
- CHRIS LAWLER (President/Secretary)
- DAN O'CONNELL (Treasurer)
- JEFF SWEENEY (Director)
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 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Motor City Madness Fastpitch is an organization dedicated to providing Novi area girls the opportunity to participate in the sport of fastpitch softball at the higest amateur level.
What it reported doing in 2017
Operation of youth competitive fastpitch softball teams that develop leadership skills, sportsmanship, strong character, ethical behavior, physical fittness, and many other life skills of the individual aged 6 through 18.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 87% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 11
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.3%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.3%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -34.1% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.3% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $153K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2013 to 2017
- 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.
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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.