USA Softball

Legal name: USA Softball Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
237132249
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
Location
Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Phone
4054253445
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Professional Societies, Associations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$13,494,150
Expenses
$14,425,508
Assets
$33,662,356
Liabilities
$17,970,114

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

31 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DAN PFEFFER (PRESIDENT)
  • TIMOTHY DOBY (PRESIDENT ELECT)
  • DAVE DEVINE (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
  • JOE PATTERSON (PAST PRESIDENT (THRU 11/2025))
  • CRAIG CRESS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • CRAIG CRESS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $262,630 total reported compensation
  • CHERYL BOND (CFO): $197,471 total reported compensation
  • CHRISTOPHER SEBREN (CHIEF SPORT DEVELOPMENT PERFORMANCE): $162,084 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

USA Softball (USAS) is the national governing body of softball in the United States, including regulating competition to ensure fairness and equal opportunity to the millions of players who participate in the sport.

What it reported doing in 2025

Membership - membership includes registrations, governance, clinics, schools, national tournaments and ace coaches certification.- registration revenues are used to pay for the expenses of usas's national championship tournaments, expenses of its national council meeting, as well as sponsor softball clinics and schools.- the usas national council is comprised of approximately 280 voting members from all aspects of the sport. The council is charged with making decisions on legislative changes, rule changes and is solely responsible for awarding national championships to host cities across the country. All code and playing rule amendments are then voted on by the usas council during their annual meeting.- usas conducts over 85 national tournaments (continued on schedule o) on an annual basis in which 30,000 players compete across the u.s. The cities are selected by the council at the annual meeting.- usas's equipment testing and specifications committee examines the current rules and specifications governing various items of softball equipment. This committee makes recommendations to usas's council regarding equipment certification process by usas. The council is the ultimate decision maker of usas rules and regulations regarding certification of equipment.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 65% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 61
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 29
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 98.5%; rating input score 98
  • Program expense ratio: 91%; rating input score 91
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -6.9%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.33; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.53; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.1%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 25.6% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 98.5% of revenue deployed · 91% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $13.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $263K · 31 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $966K reported
  • Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.