Palo Alto Pickleball Club Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813780252
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6507504614
- Rating
- 41
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Racquet Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $52,421
- Expenses
- $22,285
- Assets
- $95,787
- Liabilities
- $1,642
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dave Siegel (President)
People named in this filing
- Dave Siegel (President)
- Ayla Bell (Secretary)
- Samit Ranjan (Treasurer)
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 promote amateur pickleball and related recreation in the Palo Alto community by organizing and supporting inclusive play at all levels-from first-time players stepping onto the court to the highest-level competitors. We offer instruction, clinics (including our Getting Started Clinic for beginners), tournaments (including senior events), and community programs that foster the social aspects of the game. Through volunteer-driven initiatives, we encourage public participation, sportsmanship, health, and social connection. We are a fully volunteer-run organization and have one of the largest pickleball memberships in the Bay Area
What it reported doing in 2025
Organize tournaments for players looking to refine their skills and compete in a structured setting. Events can be divided by skill levels (e.g., up to 3.0, 3.0-4.0, and 4.0+). This initiative is volunteer-driven and requires city permits, along with equipment such as balls and paddles.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 93% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 9
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 8.2%; rating input score 8
- Program expense ratio: 10.3%; rating input score 10
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 57.5%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.3; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 8.2% of revenue deployed · 10.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 8/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.