Palos Power Softball
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271340405
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Palos Heights, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7085943838
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parent/Teacher Group
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $120,630
- Expenses
- $160,339
- Assets
- $44,927
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lindsey Nissen (President & CEO)
People named in this filing
- Mitch Hasen (Director)
- Bob Doherty (Treasurer)
- Tom Keaty (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our singular mission is to provide the opportunity for players to learn the fundamentals of softball and to enhance their skills while stressing the importance of teamwork in order to provide them an opportunity to play and enjoy both recreational and competitive softball. Palos POWER Softball is a non-profit, parent run and completely volunteer organization designed to offer both recreational and competitive softball to girl ages 5-16 years of age residing in Palos Heights and surrounding areas. Our goal is to ensure we adhere to elite standards of coaching and management ideals while creating an atmosphere that can be enjoyed by the players, their parents and the community at large. Mission Statement Our singular mission is to provide the opportunity for players to learn the fundamentals of softball and to enhance their skills while stressing the importance of teamwork in order to...
Palos Power Softball is a 100% non-profit, parent volunteer organization offering recreational and competitive softball for girl ages 5–16 in Palos Heights and surrounding areas. Its singular mission is to help players learn softball fundamentals, enhance their skills, and emphasize teamwork so they can enjoy both recreational and competitive softball. The organization runs programs such as Hybrid Travel, which includes fall games/practices, winter training/practices, in-house participation in April–June, weekend games during in-house season, and approximately four tournaments in June/July.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 93% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -32.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $160K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.