Tri-City United Soccer Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363346894
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Fargo, ND, USA
- Phone
- 7012051357
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,871,029
- Expenses
- $1,999,323
- Assets
- $1,270,169
- Liabilities
- $1,695,001
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jolene Garty (President)
- Robert Wilson (Vice-President)
- Kerry Wynne (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Kerry Wynne (Executive Director): $70,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To enrich the lives of our community by providing an environment that promotes positive development of all ages.
What it reported doing in 2024
Tri-City United Soccer Club consists of the following programs: The recreational program (Pre-K through High School) provides a safe, fun, and educational soccer experience where kids learn and develop through participation. The goal of the TCU recreational programs is to allow children who want to experience soccer an opportunity to play. There are roughly 3,000 recreational players playing across three separate seasons: Fall, Winter, Spring/Summer.The Extras program (renamed from Academy) is split into three separate offerings. The FUNdamentals program provides an introduction to soccer for players aged 18 months-6 years old. The Pre-Competitive U7/U8 program provides an environment for recreational players to transition into Competitive. This program serves 6-8 year olds. The STEP program is a technical training environment. Approximately 400 players participated across the entire fiscal year.The competitive program (8-18 years old) offered accelerated training in a competitive environment for committed players from August through July. The goal is to produce competitive teams in each age group offering local players a program to improve their soccer abilities and compete against teams in our region. We had approximately 650 competitive players across 35-40 teams who participated in one or more seasons of the Competitive program.The adult league program provides recreational opportunities for adults aged 18-99 to continue playing the sport they love. All players who register are allowed to participate. We serve roughly 100 players in this program over the course of the year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 94% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.8%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 85.8%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.31 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -6.9%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.33; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.8% of revenue deployed · 85.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $70K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 7/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.