United States Specialty Sports Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 540979285
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Melbourne, FL, USA
- Phone
- 8007413014
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $23,642,522
- Expenses
- $25,816,494
- Assets
- $29,800,806
- Liabilities
- $11,002,547
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CRAIG SCRIVEN (CO-CEO 2024 & CHAIRMAN)
- ANDY WISK (CO-CEO 2024 & BOARD MEMBER)
- DONALD DEDONATTIS (FORMER CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DONALD DEDONATTIS (FORMER CEO): $480,000 total reported compensation
- MEGHAN WATSON (FORMER COO): $394,713 total reported compensation
- CRAIG SCRIVEN (CO-CEO 2024 & CHAIRMAN): $203,564 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of usssa shall be to act as a multi-sport, sanctioning (i.e., creating, managing, promoting and organizing) body for various recreational and competitive sports programs and other related events.
What it reported doing in 2024
The association promotes the games of softball, baseball, flag football, soccer, golf, volleyball, basketball and taekwondo by registering players, teams and umpires, organizing tournaments and providing rulebooks available on the website and setting a standard for umpire apparel. The association sanctioned over 7,000 events with more than 1.2 million unique participants nationwide in 2024.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 43
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.5%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 81.9%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 33.3%; rating input score 33; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.2%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.6%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.5% of revenue deployed · 81.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $21.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $480K · 16 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.8M reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 16 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 33/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.