Nevada County Sportsmen Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 946256647
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Nevada City, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5302655131
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $226,543
- Expenses
- $215,573
- Assets
- $312,414
- Liabilities
- $12,797
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TOM BORMAN (Vice President)
- ED COLE (President)
Highest reported compensation
- PAT BRYAN (Treasurer): $1,650 total reported compensation
- LESLIE WOODHOUSE (Secretary): $1,650 total reported compensation
- TOM BORMAN (Vice President): $1,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To sponsor, sanction, promote and participate in all manners of recreation and amusement related to sportsmanship, to foster and create a desire for social, educational, recreational, and charitable activities among the members and others in the recreation of fishing and related outdoor sports.
What it reported doing in 2025
NEVADA COUNTY SPORTSMEN IS A 200 MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATION. In 2025, MEMBERS CONTRIBUTED 7,154 VOLUNTEER WORK HOURS, TOTALING $178,850 IN-KIND VALUE TO THE ORGANIZATION.PROGRAM SERVICE ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN 2025 INCLUDE MAINTENANCE OF ALL THREE RANGES: ARCHERY, TRAP, AND RIFLE/PISTOL. BELOW IS A LIST OF THE ACTIVITIES PROVIDED TO THE MEMBERS IN 2025: NCSC 2025 Events and ActivitiesRenovated the clubhouseInstalled lights on rifle pistol range for securityRepaired concrete on shooting rangeReclaimed brassCleaned up downed trees on archery rangeCleared brush from archery rangeRepaired target on archery rangePut on Hunter Education ProgramsBuilt woodshedPut on RSO trainingActed as RSO's for rifle pistol and trap rangesVolunteered as scorekeepers for trap rangePut on two day archery tournament (June Shoot)Archery Ham Shoot and Turkey ShootHeld monthly Cowboy Action ShootsHeld monthly Pistol Action ShootsHeld monthly Ladies Fun ShootsHeld weekly Trap Handicap LeagueHeld monthly 4H archery, trap and rifle pistol education
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.9%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 57.7%; rating input score 58
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.8%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.45; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.3%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.9% of revenue deployed · 57.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 200 of 200 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $2K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.