Sarasota Lawn Bowling Club Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 650989382
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Sarasota, FL, USA
- Phone
- 6309474774
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recreation& Sports N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,929
- Expenses
- $76,927
- Assets
- $21,246
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sally Mills (President)
- Hans Peterson (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Sally Mills (President)
- Ilona Vrba (Secretary)
- Mary Silverstein (Treasurer)
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 Sarasota Lawn Bowling Club, Inc. (SLBC) welcomes lawn bowlers of all skill levels (beginner to expert) who live in Sarasota full time or visit Sarasota from all over the world during our Winter months. We especially welcome new lawn bowlers and provide formal beginner training as well as ongoing technique instruction. We offer informal 'jitneys" (i.e. games) for players of all skill levels, club tournament opportunities, and open tournament opportunities which include teams from the Southern Gulf Coast region of Florida. Modern Lawn Bowling began in the 1830's in England, but it is truly a 21st century sport. Women compete equally with men, seniors compete equally with younger bowlers, bowlers of different skill levels can play together in the same game at the same time, and handicapped players can play at competitive levels.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our largest expense is MAINTAINING OUR GREEN FOR YEAR-ROUND PLAY. We paid an outside greenskeeper for consultation and heavy maintenance items like mowing, rolling, fertilizer, irrigation, etc., but also utilize volunteer members year-round to help with maintenance of the green and the surrounding areas. Last year 10-20 volunteer members donated picnic tables, plants, benches, and umbrellas to create newly defined picnic and garden areas where we can have lunches after bowling, board meetings and social events. We offer informal 'jitneys" (games) during the day M, W, F, Sat. as well as Tu and Th evening bowling. We ended the year with 63 full time members and have approximately 10 bowlers who consistently pay a daily rate when they choose to play.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.8%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 66%; rating input score 66
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -37.5%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 22; 22nd 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: 39.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 27.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.8% of revenue deployed · 66% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $51K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.