Santa Cruz Derby Girls Dba Santa Cruz Roller Derby
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 264574917
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8312473498
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Amateur Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,930
- Expenses
- $77,766
- Assets
- $30,429
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- AMY WAGNER (Secretary)
- LISA O'CONNOR (Treasurer)
- HOLLY BAKER (Executive Dir.)
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 santa cruz derby girls (scdg) are a skater operated organization that promotes the sport of women's roller derby by fostering local, state, national, and international amateur sports competition. Scdg endavors to give a portion of its net profits back to the community through donations to charities and local non-profit organizations.
What it reported doing in 2025
To promote the physical and mental strength of amateur female roller derby athletes by training them for competition on a national and international level
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 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.7%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 95.9%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.2%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -12.2% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.5% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.2% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.7% of revenue deployed · 95.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $75K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2016 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: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.