The Professional Pickleball Federation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812059977
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- St George, UT, USA
- Phone
- 8017266363
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $197,187
- Expenses
- $196,175
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN GULLO (PRESIDENT)
- BARBARA JORDAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MELISSA MCCURLEY (DIRECTOR)
- SARAH ANSBOURY (DIRECTOR)
- BYRON FRESO (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 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purposes for which the corporation is organized are:1. To promote in all ways the public interests, appreciation, competition, experience and enjoyment of the sport of pickleball; and to assist in providing such experiences for the general public.2. To provide a forum and organization for professional pickleball players to be able to obtain information about sponsorships, representations and other participation.3. To sponsor and/or participate in competitions, gatherings, conventions, tournaments or events and other mutually beneficial meetings and opportunities for members of the corporation and for interested members of the general public.
What it reported doing in 2017
The professional pickleball federation the "association") has been established to encourage interest and participation in professional pickleball competitions and events. Included in these activities are the following: a. The association intends to establish an organization involving representation and input from variousregions of the united states to provide the participation of persons having interest in the sport of pickleball with a wide variety of experience and backgrounds, with the goal of maximizing ideas and participation without regard to cultural differences, race, sex, religion, or national orientation.b. The goal of this broad exposure and participation shall be to provide a forum for information available topickleball participants, particularly professional participants, enabling them to obtain a wide variety of helpful information relating to the availability and nature of: competitive events; of possible individual sponsorships; of background and issues relating to agents and representation for a player to consider in making his or her arrangements with sponsors, agent and the like; product availability and improvements involving pickleball equipment and facilities; and the like. The association will, in this regard, act in a general information gathering and distribution function benefitting the public generally. The association will not act as any agent or representative of an individual player nor benefit, or discriminate against, any individual, since the activities are to be for generalbenefit.c. The association will sponsor, schedule and coordinate pickleball tournaments, competitions, conventionsand events, to benefit the sport of professional pickleball through exchange of information, standardizing of rules and codes of conduct, and other mutually-beneficial activities.d. In benefitting the growth and interest in professional pickleball competition, the association intends that this will also provide related benefits to the general public by fostering interest in the sport of pickleball by increasing information to amateur and occasional pickleball players and providing increased attention to the benefits of exercise from this sport for people of all ages.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.5%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.