Usta Eastern Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 135042070
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Purchase, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9146972300
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,697,867
- Expenses
- $6,706,867
- Assets
- $8,446,121
- Liabilities
- $1,017,441
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ARI ROBERTS (PRESIDENT)
- JONATHAN KLEE (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- AMBER MARINO (ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (AS OF 06/09/2025))
- JENNIFER SCHNITZER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JENNIFER SCHNITZER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & CEO): $270,751 total reported compensation
- JULIE BEAL (MANAGING DIRECTOR, STRATEGY & COMPETITION): $191,244 total reported compensation
- JOCELYN CRUZ-ALFALLA (DIRECTOR, SCHOOLS & COMMUNITY TENNIS): $153,927 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Growing tennis to inspire healthier people and communities everywhere.
What it reported doing in 2025
Usta adult and youth competitive tennis programs offer quality recreational and competitive tennis programs for individuals of all ages and abilities. These programs provide tennis as a means of healthful recreation and physical fitness and foster high standards of amateurism and good sportsmanship. Adult tennis programs include usta leagues, recreational and social tennis, tennis on campus, and usta sanctioned adult tournaments. Youth programs include 10 and under programs, early development camps, junior team tennis leagues and events, and usta sanctioned junior tournaments.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 79% for direct work, and 21% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.2%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 87.6%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 14th 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: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 79.1%; rating input score 79; 27th 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.1%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.26; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.2% of revenue deployed · 87.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $5.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $271K · 23 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 7 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.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.