Park Valley United Fc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411752792
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Saint Louis Park, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6124052425
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Soccer
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,004,440
- Expenses
- $866,442
- Assets
- $1,324,615
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN C EKMAN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOHN C EKMAN (PRESIDENT)
- MIKE FINLEY (VP/SECRETARY)
- JOSEPH WEINER (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission at park valley united fc is to provide all players in saint louis park, golden valley, and the surrounding communities, the opportunity to reach their fullest potential as a person and player through a positive soccer experience. We achieve this by teaching teamwork, sportsmanship, technique, skills, athleticism, and tactics in a manner that is tailored to each player's developmental requirements. Player learning goals are achieved through a range of soccer programs led by a full-time staff of directors of coaching and player development, coaches with backgrounds in playing and coaching soccer, and coaches with u.s. Soccer and united soccer coaches association education licenses.
What it reported doing in 2025
Park valley united fc was created in 2013 after a merger between saint louis park soccer association and golden valley phoenix soccer club after serving their respected communities for more than 20 years. The organization brings together soccer programs for kids ages 6 - 19 between recreational leagues, competitive leagues and winter training programs. Pvufc encompasses a comprehensive coaching approach focusing on total soccer ability, teamwork, and individual skill development. Approximately 1,450 kids took place in recreational soccer leagues and 600 kids took part in competitive soccer leagues during the 2025 fiscal reporting period.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% 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
SUPPORTED - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 89.4%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.7%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.53; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75% of revenue deployed · 89.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $775K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2010 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.