Tidewater Dawgs Athletic Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
541972384
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Yorktown, VA, USA
Rating
91
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Football

Reported finances

Revenue
$87,745
Expenses
$89,680
Assets
$13,851

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Criszion Courtney (President)
  • Ernest Sales (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Criszion Courtney (President)
  • Ernest Sales (Vice President)
  • Lacey Marbra (Treasurer)

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

Teach various life skills and the fundamentals of sports with emphasis on maximum participation. TWDAA is a chapter of the National Youth Sports Coaches Association and Parents Association for Youth Sports both headquartered in Florida through which the league provides learning opportunities through a unified organization supporting the One Team One Goal concept. TWDAA provides certification training for coaches and staff members. The league instills good citizenship discipline and strong educational values.

What it reported doing in 2025

The program prevents youth involvement in violence by providing structured supervised activities during high-risk after-school and weekend hours. Through organized football cheer and girls flag football participants are engaged in positive team-based environments that promote discipline accountability and healthy peer relationships. By reducing idle time and increasing access to consistent adult mentorship the program decreases opportunities for involvement in delinquent or violent behavior directly benefiting community safety in Hampton. The Tidewater Dawgs Athletic Association is a community-based initiative that uses structured athletic programming as a gateway to engage youth in prevention intervention and positive development services. The program includes servicing youth ages 8-14+ with a focus on those from underserved communities who may be at risk of exposure to violence negative peer influences or system involvement. Through organized football cheer and girls flag football programming participants engage in consistent supervised activities during after-school hours evenings and weekendscritical times when youth are most vulnerable. While athletics provide the foundation the program intentionally integrates mentorship and life skills development including conflict resolution emotional regulation leadership teamwork and decision-making. Coaches and volunteers are trained to serve as positive role models fostering trust and reinforcing accountability and respect.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 29
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

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: -2.2%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $92K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 8 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 4 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.