Umps Care Charities Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204150440
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2014
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014
- Location
- Edgewater, MD, USA
- Phone
- 5187682790
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Big Brothers, Big Sisters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $163,222
- Expenses
- $466,671
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GARY DARLING (PRESIDENT)
- MARVIN HUDSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JENNIFER SKOLCHENKO-PLATT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JENNIFER SKOLCHENKO-PLATT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $58,788 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Umps care charities, inc. Provides financial, in-kind, and emotional support for america's youth and families in need. Through our youth-based programs, professional baseball umpires enrich the lives of at-risk youth and children coping with serious illness by providing memorable baseball experiences, supporting pediatric medical care, and raising awareness for foster care children waiting to be adopted.
What it reported doing in 2014
The blue for kids children's hospital program brings a crew of major league umpires to the bedside of children with life-threatening illnesses. Each crew brings a build-a-bear workshop right to the hospital room. While a hospital stay can be a frightening time for children and their families, the blue for kids program lifts the spirits of all involved. Children make stuffed teddy bears, puppies, or kittens while sharing high-fives and words of encouragement with the blue for kids crew.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 78% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 4
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.13 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 97.5%; rating input score 98; 53rd 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: -185.9%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.6%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 82.1% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -18.1% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 87.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $407K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $59K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2010 to 2014
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.