Nova Bulls Organization

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
883209302
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Haymarket, VA, USA
Phone
7036798002
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Basketball

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$132,692
Expenses
$135,458
Assets
$11,118
Liabilities
$24,568

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Alora Henry (President)

People named in this filing

  • Alora Henry (President)
  • DeMarcus Henry (Board Member)
  • Landus Hall (Board Member)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To advance the education, positive development, and well-being of youth and young adults through structured basketball instruction, competitive athletic opportunities, sports-based mentoring, life-skills education, and community partnerships that build leadership, discipline, confidence, teamwork, healthy decision-making, and long-term personal and educational success.

What it reported doing in 2025

NOVA Bulls provided structured youth basketball development, sports-based mentoring, and competitive athletic opportunities to youth throughout Northern Virginia and the greater DMV region. During the fiscal year, the organization operated teams across multiple age divisions and provided regularly scheduled practices, individual and team skills instruction, league and tournament participation, specialized training, and regional travel opportunities. Athletes received consistent coaching and adult guidance designed to strengthen basketball fundamentals while developing discipline, confidence, teamwork, leadership, accountability, and healthy decision-making. The organization also advanced its Mentoring Through Sports approach, developed through discussions with the Prince William County Office of Youth Services, by using athletics as a platform for positive youth development and personal growth. Players and families received season orientations, codes of conduct, travel guidance, fundraising support, and ongoing communication concerning academic responsibility, program expectations, and athlete development. NOVA Bulls also provided community and team-family assistance to reduce barriers to participation. Through these services, the organization created a safe, structured, and supportive environment where young athletes could build meaningful relationships, compete at increasingly challenging levels, and pursue long-term athletic, educational, and personal success.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 23
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -2.1%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.21; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 32.9% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 39.2% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $135K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.