Thrive Through Tennis Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
854083720
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Broadview Heights, OH, USA
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Racquet Sports

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$100,965
Expenses
$87,210
Assets
$57,672

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHERYL CHASE (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • CHERYL CHASE (PRESIDENT)
  • BRIAN SMALLWOOD (EXECUTIVE DI)
  • NANCY SOBECKS (VICE PRESIDE)

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

To utilize the sport of tennis to positively impact the health and wellness of individuals and our community. We offer adaptive and wheelchair tennis to enable anyone to enjoy and benefit physically and mentally from the sport of tennis

What it reported doing in 2025

Wheelchair thrive provided 29.5 hours of tennis and pickleball instruction to 12 individual participants. Participants included disabled veterans. Thrive provided the sport wheelchairs, as well as the rackets and paddles that the participants used in the class.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 45
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 83.4%; rating input score 83
  • Program expense ratio: 96.5%; rating input score 97

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 13.6%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 18.3%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 35.3% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 83.4% of revenue deployed · 96.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $84K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.