South Lyon Junior League Baseball Lori Mclaren
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201059264
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- South Lyon, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2484869560
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Baseball, Softball
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $446,777
- Expenses
- $424,867
- Assets
- $211,787
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
30 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRIS BANDY (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DEB GAUDREAU (EXECUTIVE DI): $10,305 total reported compensation
- GRACE HOFFMAN (EQUIPMENT): $8,873 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of this organization is to provide supervised recreational baseball and softball for all boys and girls in the south lyon school district who desire to participate in a league, regardless of race, color, or national origin. The goal is that our young athletes will derive enjoyment and develop leadership skills through participating in amateur baseball and softball.
What it reported doing in 2025
The purpose of this organization is to provide supervised travel and recreational baseball and softball in an amateur status within the south lyon school district, regardless of race, color, or national origin. The goal is to teach our young athletes the rules, enjoyment, and leadership that sports programs can bring to build a solid community. Over 1,100 children from ages 4-16 participate.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 83% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.8%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 94.5%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.9%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.8% of revenue deployed · 94.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $401K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $10K · 30 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.