Road Runners Club of America Tupelo Running Club

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
640721003
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Tupelo, MS, USA
Phone
6623221611
Rating
47
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$104,197
Expenses
$114,286
Assets
$4,865
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • RICK CULP (PRESIDENT)
  • ESTER (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • RICK CULP (PRESIDENT)
  • ESTER (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • EMILY WADE (TREASUREER)

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

The tupelo running club is a non-profit running club that promotes amateur running events and hosts a handful of races each year for the public good. The club recieves membership dues from members, race registration fees and sponsorships. These funds are used to host racing events including, but not limitied to, post race refreshments, race attire, race equiptment, awards, etc. Funding is also used to contribute to various community organizations such as tupelo humane society, boys and girls cllub of ne ms, talbot house, ms parents of the blind, and others.

What it reported doing in 2025

Tupelo trail shuffle is a 10k abd 20k run that was held on november 18, 2023, with hundreds of participants. The run benefits the "foundation for ms wildlife, fisheries, and parks". A donation of $5,300 was made to the organization.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 21
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 22%; rating input score 22
  • Program expense ratio: 20%; rating input score 20

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -9.7%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -27.8% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -17.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 22% of revenue deployed · 20% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $23K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 22/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 20/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.