Solon United Soccer Club Dba Solon Lighting Soccer Club

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
341894624
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Solon, OH, USA
Phone
3306875542
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$121,646
Expenses
$245,941
Assets
$105,295

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • HOWARD KLEBANOW (PRESIDENT EMERITUS)
  • KEVIN GRIFFITH (VICE PRESIDENT - BOYS)
  • ROBERT COHN (PRESIDENT)
  • JESSICA SCHNEIDER (VICE PRESIDENT - GIRLS)

People named in this filing

  • HOWARD KLEBANOW (PRESIDENT EMERITUS)
  • KEVIN GRIFFITH (VICE PRESIDENT - BOYS)
  • ROBERT COHN (PRESIDENT)

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

Solon united's primary purpose is to provide soccer training and games to the community of solon, Ohio for boys and girls ages 6-13

What it reported doing in 2025

Soccer games, tournaments, team player registration: two outdoor soccer season, spring /fall. Two indoor soccer seasons, winter.minium of two tournaments, team/player registration for 275 players/25 teams

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 95
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Sustainability: 13
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 87.1%; rating input score 87

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -102.2%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.8%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 18.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 16.4% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 87.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $214K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 15 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.