Urban Racquet Sports Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204936131
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Saginaw, MI, USA
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $69,067
- Expenses
- $101,695
- Assets
- $346,095
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Pharrington Douglass USPTA (President-Dir)
People named in this filing
- Pharrington Douglass USPTA (President-Dir)
- Ken LeCureux CPA (EVP-Sec-Trea-Dir)
- Jan LeCureux (Dir)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to reach and mentor underserved at risk urban youth through year-around tennis and pickleball instruction and character development training; promote reading and healthy nutrition; teach healthy life-long sports with opportunities for advanced competition. Tennis and pickleball is a means through caring volunteers and professional programs to provide character-building guidance with love and encouragement for a brighter future. We also reach and serve the underserved urban adult community with recreation coaching and exercise through our long-term lease with the city to operate and maintain the only tennis and pickleball facility in the city.
What it reported doing in 2024
Instruction education and mentoring. Tennis and pickleball is our tool to reach inner-city at-risk youth with an emphasis on character qualities self-confidence building disclipine development reading proficiency and nutrition education. Reaching 100s of youth over the past 18 years through summer on-court activity and winter in-door facilities. In the second year of our new facility that we built after raising $2M in 2019 & 2021 we worked with 134 kids from the local Boys & Girls Club and area city.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 71% 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. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.4%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 40.2%; rating input score 40
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: -47.2%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.4; rating input score 77; 77th 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: -8.6% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.5% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.4% of revenue deployed · 40.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $41K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.