Police Athletic League Inc of Las Cruces New Mexico

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
850310903
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Las Cruces, NM, USA
Phone
5756424652
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$113,113
Expenses
$88,969
Assets
$73,071
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • RUBEN GARCIA (PRESIDENT)
  • ALMA CORTEZ (VICE-PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • ROCKY BURKE (SERGEANT AT ARMS)
  • STEPHAN COLMAUT (MEMBER)
  • EMILY PARADES (MEMBER)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

To promote boxing and other pro-social activities such as recreational and life-skills mentoring for a diverse group of youth and adults in the community. Further, the organization promotes positive interaction between youth, police officers and the community. Through various sporting activities, mutual trust and respect can be built.

What it reported doing in 2025

The police athletic league inc., of las cruces New Mexico (pal) has built a legacy in promoting boxing in the las cruces community since 1972. The pal organization offers a safe, structured, rigorous athletic training program to youth of all ages at the gym facilities. Pal continues to provide boxing along with life skills mentoring for a diverse group of youth in the community in a safe and constructive space. The volunteer coaches are certified trainers by the USA boxing organization. In 2025, pal opened its gym to approximately sixty (60) youth boxers to work out and train. Twenty-three (23) of these youth boxers are on a traveling team. They competed at the state golden gloves with two gold medal champions and one silver medal champion. They competed at the national golden gloves with a silver medal champion. They competed at the regional golden gloves with five gold medal champions. Aside from these three tournaments, the team traveled to twenty (20) other tournaments throughout the year. The tournaments were held in Arizona, Nevada, Texas, New Mexico and Tennessee. Pal hosted three boxing tournaments in las cruces at the pal gym facilities. Teams from Texas, New Mexico and Arizona attended.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 84% 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 - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 62
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 78.5%; rating input score 78
  • Program expense ratio: 99.7%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • 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: 21.3%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 78.5% of revenue deployed · 99.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $89K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.