Pickleball Forward Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 392722367
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Racquet Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $400
- Expenses
- $6
- Assets
- $394
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Ta-Ming Shih (Director)
- James Bialick (Director)
- Sandy Phan (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to empower youth and build community through accessible and high-quality pickleball programs that celebrate the joy and power of play. Our program activities are 1 Youth Pickleball Programs including after-school classes and clubs summer camps and leagues; and 2 Youth Pickleball One-time Events including tournaments and training clinics. In 2025 we focused on organization formation and planning and plan to launch program activities in 2026.
What it reported doing in 2025
Youth Pickleball Programs including after-school classes and clubs summer camps and leagues. Youth Pickleball Programs are educational designed to teach fundamental athletic skills in addition to promoting physical fitness and developing important life skills such as teamwork sportsmanship perseverance and leadership. These programs will foster positive youth development helping participants build confidence while learning one of Americas fastest-growing sports. In 2025 we focused on organization formation and planning and plan to launch this program service in 2026.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 98.5%; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 65.67; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- 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: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.