Motor City Tennis Club

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
383135342
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Detroit, MI, USA
Phone
2487013420
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Racquet Sports

Reported finances

Revenue
$55,296
Expenses
$33,809
Assets
$36,237
Liabilities
$550

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Burrell Shields (President)
  • Jesse Cleary (Vice President)
  • Alfred Harris (Immediate Past President)

People named in this filing

  • Burrell Shields (President)
  • Jesse Cleary (Vice President)
  • Michele Hurst Burton (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

Increase tennis participation and provide affordable cost tennis programs in underserved communities

What it reported doing in 2024

Compensation to 10 independent contractors to provide tennis instructional services to the Greater Detroit Tennis Alliance consisting of Motor City Tennis Club and 5 additional Community Tennis Associations geographically distributed throughout metropolitan Detroit. Programs serve 30 - 50 people per site, conducted seasonally (spring, summer, fall, and winter). Fall and winter programs are conducted at indoor facilities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 61
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 59
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 48.8%; rating input score 49
  • Program expense ratio: 79.9%; rating input score 80

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: 38.9%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.07; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 13.1%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -44.6% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 83.3% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 48.8% of revenue deployed · 79.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $27K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.