Nebraska Supreme
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872453909
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Lincoln, NE, USA
- Phone
- 4024292572
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Basketball
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $127,423
- Expenses
- $150,709
- Assets
- $14,608
- Liabilities
- $1,293
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- MATTHEW CUMRO (DIRECTOR)
- BRIAN WILLET (DIRECTOR)
- JAMES HERSHBERGER (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our tagline "developing players. Building professionals." goes beyond basketball with our players. We believe in developing each player on our teams into a professional person whether that is the opportunity to eventually be an nba player, overseas professional basketball player, or most commonly a professional in their future chosen career path. We believe basketball is one of the greatest teaching tools to equip these young men and women for life and citizenship. We believe in christian values and teach these fundamental principles to others to help them overcome life's challenges. Nebraska supreme is focused on helping student athletes in the Nebraska and surrounding states territory. One of Nebraska supreme's founding principles is to never turn away a player from our program due to financial reasons. We are grateful for our donors' support that is necessary to fulfull this vision.
What it reported doing in 2024
Nebraska supreme was able to provide financial assistance to over 30 asketball players in the 2025 season ending 9/30/2025. Because of the traveling basketball opportunities, our players received over 38 college scholarship offers in 2025. We were also able to provide many meals and nutritional plans to players in financial need. Our tagline developing players. Building professionals." goes beyond basketball with our players. We believe in developing each player on our teams into a professional person whether that is the opportunity to eventually be an nba player, overseas professional basketball player, or most commonly a professional in their future chosen career path. We believe basketball is one of the greatest teaching tools to equip these young men and women for life and citizenship. We believe in christian values and teach these fundamental principles to others to help them overcome life's challenges. Nebraska supreme is focused on helping student athletes in the Nebraska and surrounding states territory. One of Nebraska supreme's founding principles is to never turn away a player from our program due to financial reasons. However we are not able to fulfill this vision without your support.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% 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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.7%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 80.9%; rating input score 81
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -18.3%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.7% of revenue deployed · 80.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $122K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.