Suffolk County Sports Hall of Fame
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 113503312
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Lake Grove, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6318487589
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Amateur Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $49,842
- Expenses
- $54,141
- Assets
- $11,514
- Liabilities
- $26,497
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRIS R VACCARO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- CHRIS R VACCARO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- PETE BLIEBERG (TREASURER)
- STEPHEN COSTELLO (TRUSTEE)
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
The purposes of the organization shall be to honor outstanding people, living or deceased, who have gained prominence and have made substantial contributions on behalf of themselves and suffolk county in the fields of professional and amateur sports; to foster and promote public awareness, appreciation and understanding of the hall of fame; to collect, care for and exhibit sports memorabilia, as defined by the board of trustees, both physical and digitally, with the goal of displaying it both physically and digitally; and to develop and conduct educational programs related to the hall of fame.
What it reported doing in 2025
Acknowledgement of athletes for service and contribution to the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.5%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 81.5%; rating input score 81
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.6%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.3; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -19.1% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -35.2% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.5% of revenue deployed · 81.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $44K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.