Pleasanton Junior Football League

Overview

Mission

Pjfl operates a contact football league where every participant is assigned a team and every player plays a full game. Over 1000 youths are served. We teach the fundamentals of contact football and cheerleading. All players are grouped by age, weight and experience. Therefore each player plays football with children of similar talents, ability, age, grade and size. Contact football is open to boys and girls in the 2nd through 8th grade. Teams practice 3 times per week beginning in early august and play games on saturday's starting in september at pleasanton sports park. The pjfl season consists of 8 regular season games followed by year-end tournament. All players are provided with the necessary safety equipment needed to play including their helmet, mouthguard, shoulder pads, pants and knee/hip/thigh pads. All players are required to attend "evaluation week" where they are put through an array of football drills designed to showcase their talents and abilities and to determine the prop

Operating model

Revenue model

Earned-program. 89% 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 64
• Transparency & Controls: 80
• Accountability: 82
• Sustainability: 59
• Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: 67.5% of revenue deployed · 78.5% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 6 of 4 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
• Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $122K in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
• Consistency: 16 of 18 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
• Schedules: 2 filed schedules
• Filing history: 16 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
• High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
• High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Independent members within voting members did not reconcile in the filed values.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
• High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.