South Valley Water Polo Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811136170
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Visalia, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5597864453
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Swimming & Other Water Recreation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $181,984
- Expenses
- $184,314
- Assets
- $17,802
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL YENIGUES (President)
- RICK NORDELL (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- MICHAEL YENIGUES (President)
- RORY COLLINWOOD (Director)
- RICK NORDELL (Vice 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
Sova seeks to promote increased participation in aquatic sports in the local community in general and specific effort directed at young men and women from economically disadvantaged circumstances. Sova is particulary interested in creating life altering, positive opportunites for young men and women who may otherwise experience generational impediments to higher education and career opportunities.
What it reported doing in 2025
South valley water polo club has quite a bit of success in their very young existance. We serve just shy to two hundred athletes in the tulare/kings county area of ca. The age groups range from 10u through 18u both boys and girls. The goal of every year is to learn, have fun, and qualify for the junior olympics tournament that takes place every year july. This tournament is the measuring stick of every club that plays. South valley water polo club has had success that was not expected at this early stage. All age groups improved their initial ranking entering the tournament. The highlight being the 18u boys who placed 4th in the gold division. This translates to 28th overall. The overall ranking is equivalent to 28th in the nation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.3%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 12; 12th 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: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $184K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 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 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.