Stars Sports Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473178781
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Inman, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8649788691
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development – Religious Leadership
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $290,193
- Expenses
- $413,683
- Assets
- $276,207
- Liabilities
- $229
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- CURTIS WHEELER (EXECUTIVE DI): $90,090 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Stars sports club operates as an organization that exists to promote the discovery of jesus through sports. We bring christian leaders, athletes, and the communities they serve together through the universal language of sports, strengthening young athletes by helping them grow in mind body and soul. As a non-denominational christian sports ministry provider, stars sports club offers programs designed to give athletes, who have found their love of the game, a place to be challenged so that they can strive for more performance. Stars sports club provides valuable resources that aid in planning, training, and executing first-class, organized, and detailed sports offerings. Stars sports club accomplishes its mission primarily through the 360 progression which is a uniquely designed total sports experience that adapts and expands as players develop and grow in their personal journey. The 360 progression offers comprehensive training and instruction that increases in intensity with each athl
What it reported doing in 2024
Stars sports club operates as an organization that exists to promote the discovery of jesus through sports. We bring christian leaders, athletes, and the communities they serve together through the universal language of sports, strengthening young athletes by helping them grow in mind body and soul. As a non-denominational christian sports ministry provider, stars sports club offers programs designed to give athletes, who have found their love of the game, a place to be challenged so that they can strive for more performance. Stars sports club provides valuable resources that aid in planning, training, and executing first-class, organized, and detailed sports offerings. Stars sports club accomplishes its mission primarily through the 360 progression which is a uniquely designed total sports experience that adapts and expands as players develop and grow in their personal journey. The 360 progression offers comprehensive training and instruction that increases in intensity with each athlete as they improve, enriching their physical, emotional, social and spiritual development. Programming is run by local leaders and coaches and focuses on athletes in middle school and high school. Stars sports club is designed to provide a unique total sports experience for players (and parents) wanting to continue their athletic journey wh1le not compromising character and integrity. Programming designed to intentionally develop all participants mentally, athletically, spiritually and socially is provided in basketball and volleyball.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 75% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 87%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $1,383.68 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -42.6%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.8%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -62.1% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -65% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -44.1% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 87% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $360K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $90K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.