The Los Angeles Sports Walk of Fame Sports Walk to the Waterfront Fnd
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300274025
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3109959545
- Rating
- 98
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $85,690
- Expenses
- $72,885
- Assets
- $83,294
- Liabilities
- $1,540
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICK J PIELAGO (President)
- JOHN PAPADAKIS (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- RICK J PIELAGO (President)
- TIM URSICH (Director)
- TOM PAPADAKIS (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
The purpose of the organization is to assist in providing scholarships or aid to the south bay harbor and peninsula area high school students who are seeking to attend college. The organization also promotes and supports the annual activity known as the san pedro walk induction program.
What it reported doing in 2025
Promote youth sports and education
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
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 55
- 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; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.9%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.14; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.6% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 76th 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 · $94K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.