Professional Disc Golf Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581741290
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Appling, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7062616342
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,575,510
- Expenses
- $9,032,928
- Assets
- $6,562,339
- Liabilities
- $2,095,846
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NATE HEINOLD (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- PETER CRIST (DIR. OF TECH): $235,282 total reported compensation
- DOUG BJERKAAS (EXECUTIVE DI): $190,915 total reported compensation
- HANS ANDERSON (SR SOFTWARE): $180,908 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promote the spirit and enjoyment of disc golf to the general public.
What it reported doing in 2025
Promote the spirit and enjoyment of disc golf to the general public, city councils, schools and members. With over 112,500 active members. Magazine published 4 times annually. Provide world wide tournaments.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 53
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.7%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 78.6%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 95.7%; rating input score 96; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.7%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.3%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.7% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.7% of revenue deployed · 78.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $7.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $235K · 16 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.