Play Right Sports Academy Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
834614774
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Albion, MI, USA
Phone
2694251202
Rating
66
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Basketball

Reported finances

Revenue
$378,011
Expenses
$186,425
Assets
$423,190
Liabilities
$62,888

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MILTON D BARNES (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • MILTON D BARNES (PRESIDENT): $27,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The organization provides an environment in which youth may learn and appreciate the core values of good citizens including but not limited to, honesty, integrity, sportsmanship, respect, confidence, responsibility, perseverance, courtesy, and judgment, through the instruction and participation in the game of basketball and other sporting activities.

What it reported doing in 2025

Community programs: play right open gym provides daily exercise for youths participating in various sports activities, such as basketball, volleyball, tennis, and golf. Servicing between 25 to 30 youths daily during the week and between 75 to 90 youths on the weekends. The basketball activities program organizes youth basketball teams that participate in tournaments or leagues. This services around 30 to 45 boys in the 7th to 8th grade in the albion, jackson, and battle creek area. For boys in 9th to 12th grade, it also services for between 30 to 45. The academic support program provides a broad range of academic tutoring on various subjects hoping to enhance their academic performance in school. This program provides academic help starting from the 3rd grade all the way through the 12th grade, helping between 20 to 30 students weekly. The tee ball program teaches youths the fundamentals of the sport. This progams provides its services to around 30 to 50 youths in the albion area.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 68% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 44
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 68
  • Sustainability: 66
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 30.6%; rating input score 31
  • Program expense ratio: 61.5%; rating input score 61
  • Fundraising efficiency: $20.55 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

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: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • 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: 50.7%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.27; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14.5%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 39.4% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 51.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 30.6% of revenue deployed · 61.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $115K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $27K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 31/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 56/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.