Police Athletic League of Lakeland Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 593213375
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Lakeland, FL, USA
- Phone
- 8634996972
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $172,945
- Expenses
- $175,394
- Assets
- $166,332
- Liabilities
- $-1,525
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARVIN TARVER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MIKE COOPER (DIRECTOR)
- JAMEY HENDERSON (INTERIM SECR)
- BRANDON JORGE (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission to promote positive interaction between the youth in the community and the lakeland police department using educational and recreational activities directed through a variety of youth programming. Goals & philosophy the goal of the lakeland police athletic league (pal) is to provide enriching programs for the youth of the community that are fun and will inspire them to learn and practice the values of sportsmanship, scholarship, and physical fitness. Lakeland pal achieves this goal by: - bringing area youth members closer together through a common interest in athletic competition - providing supervised, organized, and safety-oriented learning environments - providing the opportunity to practice and play free from the pressure to "win at all costs" - using volunteers whose goals support the lakeland police athletic league's philosophy - encouraging parent involvement, which includes support of the program and helping officers, coaches, and participants program benefits your
What it reported doing in 2024
Pal serves over 1,500 children each year, providing activities such as youth football, cheerleading, baseball, basketball, track & field, wrestling and the driven 1 fitness program. Lakeland pal staff and volunteers mentor to hundreds of children each year providing to children who may not be able to participate in other organized recreational activities due to transportation issues or economic reasons.
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
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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.6%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 86.4%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.11 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 26th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: -1.4%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.6% of revenue deployed · 86.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $151K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 37/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule G fundraiser detail did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.