The Pinkney Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831000830
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Pittsburg, CA, USA
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $380,851
- Expenses
- $356,632
- Assets
- $289,177
- Liabilities
- $1,621
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PRESTON PINKNEY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PRESTON PINKNEY (PRESIDENT)
- RENEE DANIEL-KEETON (CO-TREASURER)
- HENRY LOUBET (MEMBER)
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 pinkney foundations mission is to empower underserved youth through golf, providing transformative opportunities that foster personal growth, resilience, and a pathway to lifelong success.
What it reported doing in 2024
The primetime golf indoor facility the foundations primetime golf indoor facility served as a year round hub offering high-tech training using golfzon simulators, coaching delvelopment, and job exploration. In partnership with new door ventures, three youth completed a 3-month paid internship, learning golf operations, customer service and leadership skills. The facility also hosted a monthly mens fellowship gatherings and mental health workshops to support community healing and connection; particularly for youth and men of color. Corporate and special events. The foundation also continued its 15-year partnership with the alameda county probation deprtment, delivering weekly golf and life skills programming to incarcerated yoth at camp sweeney. This initiative supports emotional resilience, reentry planning, and long-term goal setting for system-impacted youth. The foundations monthly financial literacy workshops led by financial professionals, helped high school students develop budgeting, savings, investing, and college funding skills; preparing them for economic independence and real world success. In 2024, the foundation also expanded community outreach through the primetime golf mobile simulator, powered by dryvebox and supported by toyota walnut creek. This mobile unit brought golf to schools, block parties, and community events, removing access barriers and introducing hundreds of young people to golf and stem learning in their own neighborhoods. The pinkney foundation remains deeply committed to transforming lives and expanding opportunity through golf, mentorship, wellness and financial empowerment - building futures one swing, one skill and one student at a time. Beyond local acivities, we also provided opportunities for youth to participate in regional and national golf tournaments. These travel experiences allowed participants to showcase their skill, build confidence, and form meaningful connections with peers and menotrs from diverse backgrounds. Exposure to these competitive and inspirational environments reinforced the values of hard work, sportsmanship, and perserverance. Through these combined efforts, or programs are creating a positive, lasting impact, helping youth of all backgrounds to discover their potential on and off the golf course.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 22nd 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: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: 6.4%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 72.9% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 50.4% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 59% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $357K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.