Santa Cruz Pickleball Club Santa Cruz Pickleball Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833902484
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8313342462
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Amateur Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $46,940
- Expenses
- $24,027
- Assets
- $84,824
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mark Dettle (President)
People named in this filing
- Mark Dettle (President)
- George Propper (Treasurer)
- Lauren Tobin (Secretary)
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 Pickleball Club mission is to educate the public about the health benefits of playing Pickleball and make it a safe, fun and social activity. We facilitate the growth of Pickleball in Santa Cruz County California. We are a volunteer organization with no paid staff and we partner with the Public Parks Departments in the surrounding area. Through donations from our Membership and from the Public, we make available organized play at various Venues in the area. We use our donations to pay for Rental Fees at those Venues and to supply Balls and help maintain facilities. We have raised funds to donate nets to our Public Parks partners. In addition throughout the year we have special events, where we raise money for other local charities in Santa Cruz County.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Santa Cruz Pickleball Club rents venues for Club Day Pickleball play 7 days a week. With our volunteer staff we give training for new players and create social activities on Club Day for our Membership as well as the General public. We maintain the facilities and have donated Nets to the Parks and Recs Depts of Santa Cruz County, where the Venues are located. We also supply balls and equipment to the players. The Nets that we have furnished and now owned by the Parks and Recs Depts are used by the General Public on non Club Days. For Club Days we receive a voluntary court fee donation from the participants.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.5%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 48.8%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.53; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $28K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.