New Mexico Young America Football League
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850206968
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5058839303
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,130,331
- Expenses
- $1,215,449
- Assets
- $159,527
- Liabilities
- $487,386
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SANTIAGO SAMORA (PRESIDENT)
- CHAD WHITAKER (PRESIDENT EL)
Highest reported compensation
- WILLIAM BLAIR JR (EXECUTIVE DI): $111,982 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the New Mexico young america football league ("yafl") is to provide a safe, affordable, high quality youth football and cheerleading experience for the children of New Mexico. In doing so, the New Mexico young america football league provides an educational and sportsmanship based program for children ages six to fourteen years. They strive to provide an environment where children are encouraged to become the best student athletes they can become while demonstrating outstanding sportsmanship and character. Yafl is committed to the children, families and the community served, providing support and encouragement for each participant. By providing sports and recreational opportunities, yafl encourages the development of fine motor skills, promotes a positive attitude that can lead to increased self-confidence.
What it reported doing in 2024
Yafl provides a youth football and cheerleading league for albuquerque and surronding areas for youth between the ages of seven and fourteen. Currently there are approximately 3,500 youths benefitting from the league.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.2%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 82%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.66 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 86.7%; rating input score 87; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.5%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 3.06; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.2%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.2% of revenue deployed · 82% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 15 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $997K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $112K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 3/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.