Pittsfield Babe Ruth Baseball League Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472179845
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Pittsfield, MA, USA
- Phone
- 4134649943
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Baseball, Softball
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $40,792
- Expenses
- $56,501
- Assets
- $15,301
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID WILDGOOSE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DAVID WILDGOOSE (PRESIDENT)
- PETER MERWIN (VICE PRESIDE)
- ALAN GUTZMER (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To firmly implant in the youths of pittsfield ideals of good sportsmanship, honesty, loyalty, courage, and reverence, so that they may be finer, stronger, and happier youths and will grow to be good, clean, healthy persons. To achieve this purpose by providing youth of pittsfield for the ages of 13 to 15, the opportunity to participate in an organized, surpervised, and competitive baseball league. To further achieve this purpose by fostering the basic rule of all competitive sports - that is to develope the will to win but to acquire ability to lose and above all to learn to have the spirit to play again.
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide and opportunity to play youth baseball and promote sportsmanship to the boys and girls of pittsfield, Massachusetts and surrounding areas.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 61% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 89.1%; rating input score 89
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -38.5%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 20; 20th 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: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $50K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.