Thorndale Bulldog Athletic Booster Club Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
934039258
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Thorndale, TX, USA
Rating
65
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and Fund Distribution

Reported finances

Revenue
$105,014
Expenses
$62,833
Assets
$84,472

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kirk Becker (President)
  • Kent Ferguson (Vice President)
  • Jeff Pickel (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Heather Merz (Treasurer)
  • Kirk Becker (President)
  • Abbey Davis (Secretary)

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

Our goal is to promote school spirit and encourage attendance at ALL sporting events while raising funds to supplement the athletic programs of Thorndale ISD for all athletes and sports currently offered including cheer football volleyball basketball powerlifting tennis golf track baseball and softball as well as providing scholarships for graduating senior athletes who meet set criteria in leadership service and teamwork.

What it reported doing in 2025

TBABC funded grant requests from coaches across all sports totaling 31,433. 140 student athletes were impacted by the purchases. Coaches submit grant requests for enhancements to their programs beyond those that traditional tax dollars from the TISD budget cover. The booster officers review the applications to ensure that the grant is impactful sustainable and aligns with districts goals as well as ours. The approved grants are then presented to the booster club for vote once a month.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 86% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 47
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 69
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 37.6%; rating input score 38
  • Program expense ratio: 62.8%; rating input score 63

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 40.2%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 83.8% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 34.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 57% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 37.6% of revenue deployed · 62.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $39K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 38/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.