North Grounds Softball League

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
541894589
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2009–2023
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2023
Location
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Rating
63
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Baseball, Softball

Reported finances

Revenue
$165,362
Expenses
$127,138
Assets
$63,613

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JACK PARKER (President)

People named in this filing

  • JACK PARKER (President)
  • BRENT RICE (Treasurer)
  • ISABEL COOK (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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Hosted the uva law softball invitational, in which over 110 softball teams from over 45 different law schools participated. Ngsl donated $20,000 to local charities within the community. Ngsl also contributed $500 to uva law's public interest law association. Ngsl maintains a membership of 40 to 60 law students. These individuals serve as the umpires of softball games, the planners of social events, and the organizers of the regular season, playoffs, and spring invitational.

What it reported doing in 2023

The north grounds softball (ngsl) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit corporation. The primary goals of the organization are to run the fall and spring softball seasons at uva law school and to host the uva law softball invitational every spring, in which over 115 softball teams from over 50 different law schools participate. Furthermore, every year ngsl donates the majority of its proceeds from the invitational to a local charity, readykids of charlottesville. Ngsl also contributes substantial amounts of money to uva law's public interest law association every year. To achieve its goals, ngsl maintains a membership of 40 to 60 law students. These individuals volunteer their time as the umpires of softball games, the planners of social events, and the organizers of the regular season, playoffs, and spring invitational.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 51% for direct work, and 49% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 52
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 55
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 46.8%; rating input score 47
  • Program expense ratio: 60.9%; rating input score 61

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 23.1%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 46.8% of revenue deployed · 60.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $77K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2023
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.