Pickup Baseball Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 874000268
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Walnut Creek, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9256957294
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,831
- Expenses
- $6,051
- Assets
- $19,568
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- David Rowland (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Cynthia Rowland (Trustee)
- David Rowland (Executive 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide cost-free access to the sport of baseball every week of the year to residents and visitors to the East San Francisco Bay Area. We don't require tryouts or membership fees, and we welcome players of all genders, or skill or income levels to drop in without notice. Weekly community-building communications are sent to participants.
What it reported doing in 2024
We offered drop-in access to baseball practice and games on Sundays at noon more than 50 times in 2025. We're growing as a community as can be seen from the word-of-mouth advertising that brings us new players. We work together to welcome and adapt to new players. We continue to offer free pitching machine service to the public.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.8%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.8%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.23; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.2%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 40.6% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -42.4% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.