National Football League Alumni Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 591782262
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023
- Location
- Mount Laurel, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 8772586635
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alumni Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,405,823
- Expenses
- $1,865,793
- Assets
- $1,668,789
- Liabilities
- $451,818
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRAD EDWARDS (CEO (JOINED IN 2022))
- BART OATES (PRESIDENT (thru 11/23))
- BEASLEY REECE (CEO (RETIRED DURING YEAR))
Highest reported compensation
- BRAD EDWARDS (CEO (JOINED IN 2022)): $357,852 total reported compensation
- AL SMITH (BOARD MEMBER): $285,850 total reported compensation
- BART OATES (PRESIDENT (thru 11/23)): $150,496 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Nfl alumni had a traditional mission and purpose of caring for kids, caring for their communities, and caring for their own across the country. Player alumni give back in their local communities by raising funds for youth-related charities through their 35 regional chapters.
What it reported doing in 2023
Provide youth football camps for children to educate them about the game of football and teach team building and other skills.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 96% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 78% for direct work, and 22% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 55
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 78.5%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 96%; rating input score 96; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -32.7%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.89; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 45.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 78.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 14 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $358K · 14 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $114K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2013 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 26 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 18 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.