Serve and Return Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473466335
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Plainview, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5166068307
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Racquet Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $180,766
- Expenses
- $134,714
- Assets
- $214,683
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- STEVEN J KAPLAN (DIRECTOR)
- ROBERT POHLY (TRUSTEE)
- BRANDON O'GARA (TRUSTEE)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Serve & return, inc. Is a not-for-profit whose mission is to provide tennis recreation, education and training to underserved populations living in New York city and on long island. Our goal is to develop and implement free tennis programs to disabled individuals and families. Our focus is to bring tennis to those who would not normally have access to the sport, and to teach each person skills for tennis, but also for life.
What it reported doing in 2024
Recreation and instruction for wounded warrior, special olympics and other underserved populations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 69% for direct work, and 31% for grants.
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.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.2%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 96.6%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.5%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.59; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.2% of revenue deployed · 96.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $130K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.