Santa Barbara Volleyball Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770382584
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8057089291
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recreation& Sports N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $703,840
- Expenses
- $820,828
- Assets
- $17,971
- Liabilities
- $3,869
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Matt Riley (President)
People named in this filing
- Matt Riley (President)
- Court Young (Board Member)
- Andrea Bardakos-Riley (Board Member)
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
The club's mission is to help each member become the best volleyball player they can be and to support parents in guiding each player to become the best person they can be. The club is dedicated to the development of young people as athletes and individuals. The club is committed to teaching volleyball skills, providing an opportunity for youth from grade school through high school to train for and participate in organized competition, and is committed to providing intensive, high-quality training to those serious players who aspire tocompete at the collegiate level. The club strives to promote the sport of volleyball and achieve economic and ethnic diversity within the club.
What it reported doing in 2024
During the year, the santa barbara volleyball club taught and trained approximately 300 girls and boys ages 8 - 18 to play volleyball. Participation included regular practice sessions, team competition at various tournaments, education through clinics, and travel throughout southern California. In addition, some teams qualified for junior nationals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 86% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 96.8%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: $869.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: -16.6%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $794K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.