Racine Raiders Football Club Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 391543011
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-T 2021
- Location
- Racine, WI, USA
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $146,724
- Expenses
- $143,907
- Assets
- $45,455
- Liabilities
- $41,363
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Matthew Nelson (President)
People named in this filing
- Matthew Nelson (President)
- Thomas Christensen (Secretary)
- Vincent Scacco (VP Operations)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Racine Raiders Football Clubs purpose is to promote advance and sponsor football among grade school high school college and adult age groups in the Racine County area. We prepare athletes for local regional national and international athletic competition. Racine Raiders is dedicated to the enrichment of life in Racine County WI through the avenue of organized athletics. The organization is led by an all-volunteer Board of Directors coaching staff and over 100 volunteers that help ensure events are high quality entertainment for consituents within the Racine County community we serve.
What it reported doing in 2025
Promotion sponsorship and support of high school age football athletics for both public and private schools in Racine WI during summer 7 on 7 football and fall high school varsity seasons. Seven high schools participated with average number of participants per school at 43 athletes meaning 300+ student athletes in summer. Eleven games in Fall 2025 with average roster size of 35 per team equals 770 athletes provided opportunities to compete and be promoted within communities through games livestreaming social media highlights etc.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.1%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.9%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.91; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $144K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.