Sports Plus Group Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204631768
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Gaithersburg, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3014523781
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Autism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $165,415
- Expenses
- $149,966
- Assets
- $115,968
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
People named in this filing
- NATALIE LINIAK (DIRECTOR OF)
- THOMAS LINIAK (EXECUTIVE DI)
- TANYA LICHTERMAN (DIRECTOR)
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
Providing sports and recreation programs to children and teens with mild to moderate developmental disabilities and their typically developing siblings.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, sports plus held dozens of in person and virtual instructional year-round swim, social and fitness classes and that served participants with autism and other disabilities in various locations throughout montgomery county, md. We were one of only 8 programs in the dc region, to be awarded a spirit club foundation grant. Sports plus was chosen based on the wide age range it serves, measurable impact on the lives of those who participate and their loved ones and demonstrated best practices in swim instruction for participants with autism.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 61% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.3%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 69.8%; rating input score 70
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.3%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 52%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.3% of revenue deployed · 69.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $105K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.