Southern Md Sabres Hockey Club Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510436745
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Waldorf, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3014402080
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Winter Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $43,032
- Expenses
- $49,761
- Assets
- $125,628
- Liabilities
- $2,088
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEREK MURPHY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DEREK MURPHY (PRESIDENT)
- SCOTT KELLY (HOCKEY DIREC)
- JIM EPP (AT-LARGE MEM)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the southern Maryland sabres hockey club is to promote the growth of ice hockey and to provide the best possible experience for all participants by encouraging, developing, advancing and administering the sport.
What it reported doing in 2024
The southern Maryland sabres hockey club promotes the growth of ice hockey through recreational and travel hockey. The southern Maryland sabres hockey club recreational program is designed to provide hockey players an opportunity to learn and develop skills in a team setting. The recreational program is also designed to assure equal opportunity to participate for all skill levels. Seven recreational teams, with approximately 15 players per team, participated in 16 games each, as well as an end-of-season tournament. The southern Maryland sabres hockey club is a USA hockey tier ii program that fields competitive teams from the mite u8 to the midget age groups. These teams participate in the chesapeake bay hockey league. The league is part of the southeastern district of USA hockey. Eight travel teams, with approximately 15 players per team, participated in 30 games each, half of which were away games. Each travel team also participates in a tournament. Additionally, the club promotes hockey through learning opportunities for younger children who are not on the travel or recreational teams.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 84% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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
SUPPORTED - 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: 70
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 86.8%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.6%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.52; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -16.3% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -19.1% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 86.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $43K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.