Santa Cruz Breakers Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
770400137
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Phone
8312733174
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Promotion of International Understanding

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$238,817
Expenses
$471,135
Assets
$341,469
Liabilities
$267,905

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • EDWARD WATSON (Vice President)
  • GARY NELSON (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • ASHLEY EDGAR (BOARD MEMBER): $30,000 total reported compensation
  • HARENDRA GOONETILLEKE (BOARD MEMBER): $30,000 total reported compensation
  • EDWARD WATSON (Vice President): $22,500 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Santa cruz breakers emphasizes skill development and offers its players the highest level of competitve play from under-8 to under-19, and challenges boys and girls with the most advanced level of playing and training.

What it reported doing in 2024

The santa cruz breakers offers a well organized competitive development environment for the top girls' soccer platers in santa cruz county. The club offers formation teams from under-10 to under-13. Young players develop ball mastery, knowledge of the game and love of the sport of soccer. In older age groups the club offers under-14 to under-19 teams who compete in the npl and gold divisions. The older age groups develop an intelligent way of playing as they compete at the highest level of youth soccer. These players are well prepared for pdp, college opportunities, or simply whatever life endeavor comes next. The club also offers boys teams at the youngest age groups to provide them with a developmental pathway to future playing opportunities. The breakers have gained national recognition for consistently providing a professional coaching atmosphere for the elite youth soccer players in northern California. The presentation of the u.s. Soccer coaching curriculum is another major step in the implementation of the framework developed by the player development task force, which was created in 2006 to review all aspects of player development in the united states and recommend a course of action. The curriculum is designed to improve development of players in the organized player base in the united states, concentrating on creating more organized, age-appropriate training sessions, developing coaching practices and creating an environment that is fun for the players.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 94% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 87
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Accountability: 45
  • Sustainability: 14
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 94.2%; rating input score 94
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 62.5%; rating input score 62; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -97.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.72; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.78; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 17.5%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 8 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $444K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $30K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2014 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.