San Carlos Little League Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521288278
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- San Carlos, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4155317722
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Baseball, Softball
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $261,273
- Expenses
- $261,332
- Assets
- $193,450
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
29 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSHUA ZAROOR (CO-PRESIDENT)
- JOSH DEFONZO (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOSHUA ZAROOR (CO-PRESIDENT)
- JOSH DEFONZO (PRESIDENT)
- MARK REYNOLDS (EXECUTIVE VP)
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
San carlos little league inc. Is a youth baseball organization that supports the town of san carlos, ca. District 52 of northern California. The chapter is a volunteers-run organization that provides positive youth baseball experience to children of all abilitites in the community - with the goal to develope the qualities of leadership, citizenship, discipline, character and teamwork. Board members are typically parents whose children involved in little league baseball and serve until their children depart from the little league.
What it reported doing in 2024
Scll is composed of 14 little leagues that offer youth baseball to boys and girls age 4 to 16. All leagues offer a traditional spring baseball league, open to players of all skill levels, from march to june. In the summer, the best players as selected by their coaches and teammates compete in the international all-star tournament. Most leagues also offer a more low-key fall developmental season as well.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 83% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 12
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 93%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
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: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93% of revenue deployed · 93% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 42 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $243K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 29 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.