Njcaa Region Iv Nfp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871671033
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Mchenry, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8475432477
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Amateur Sports Competitions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $226,192
- Expenses
- $202,483
- Assets
- $126,603
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- BRADLEY UNGER (Treasurer & AD): $13,000 total reported compensation
- ARNIE CHAVERA (Director): $12,000 total reported compensation
- KAREN WILEY (Director): $12,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promote student atheletic programs at the college level. The njcaa region 4 is the governing body of 30 member schools that belong to the njcaa membership. Every year region 4 provides the opportunities to our member institutions and respective student-athletes to compete in regional tournaments and district events with the hopes of representing our region and their respective institutions at the njcaa national championships.
What it reported doing in 2024
The njcaa region 4 governs and administers college sports for 30 member colleges within the njcaa. Region 4 operates through a goverance structure, empowering schools in each division to guide and enhance their participation in college sports. The region 4 leadership is led by duly appointed members from within the regional membership institutions. This unit serves as the senior leadership body for region 4 and reports to the national office of the njcaa. The current three division structure creates fair sports competition for like-minded institutions and provides student-athletes success by ensuring students are prepared for the college classroom when they enroll in school and that they continue to progress toward a degree while playing sports. Njcaa region 4 funds district tournaments through additional competition versus other regions as deemed necessary through the njcaa national office assignments.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 10
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.6%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 94.6%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 9th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Limited
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.5%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.63; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 35.9%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.3% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.6% of revenue deployed · 94.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $191K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $13K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 17 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 14 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.