Turner Boxing Academy Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452443592
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Shawnee, KS, USA
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Amateur Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $198,103
- Expenses
- $212,748
- Assets
- $22,220
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- JOHN H BROWN (Director and Head Coach)
- Jonathan Cutler (Officer)
- Michele Griffin (Officer)
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
Turner Boxing Academy exists to teach the sport of amateur boxing to young people in the Kansas City area. TBA offers its program for free to its participants. Youth that participate in the program on a yearly basis number between 75-125. Boxers are taught the sport in a safe professional manner under the guidance of registered volunteer coaches. All equipment is provided free of charge. Boxers experience physical benefits that go along with participating in a sport that requires a high level of physical conditioning coordination and athleticism. Boxers also enjoy the benefit of belonging to and experiencing a team and family-like atmosphere through regular practices boxing competitions as well as team activities outside the gym such a float trips fishing team BBQs and organized activities when we travel to other parts of the country for competitions.
What it reported doing in 2025
Social Media including development and maintenance of website as well as TBA presence on various other social media platforms such as Instagram Facebook etc. This benefits all club members especially since we have been able to increase our online presence and cultivate more donation opportunities for those who wish to support our program. 9,800
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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
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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.9%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 52%; rating input score 52
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.4%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 12; 12th 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: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 55.9% of revenue deployed · 52% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 6 filed program accomplishments · $111K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.