North Texas Colorguard Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200047381
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Arlington, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8179449864
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music Groups, Bands, Ensembles
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $296,239
- Expenses
- $283,319
- Assets
- $21,789
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ART GROSSMAN (President)
Highest reported compensation
- ART GROSSMAN (President): $5,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
It is the mission of the North Texas Colorguard Association to provide all of our units with an educationally sound competitive environment. We wish to build strong relationships with school administrators, band directors, unit directors, parents, and students.
What it reported doing in 2024
SSA NA national championship
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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 - 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: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 63
- Accountability: 10
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.9%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 99.2%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: $58.2 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 70%; rating input score 70; 0th 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.4%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.9% of revenue deployed · 99.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 13 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $5K · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 22 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Advertising column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.