Vols in Turf Alumni
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 931935547
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Knoxville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 8652360347
- Rating
- 39
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alumni Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,340
- Expenses
- $10,612
- Assets
- $8,510
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDY PERRY (PRESIDENT)
- JOHN BALLARD (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ANDY PERRY (PRESIDENT)
- JOHN BALLARD (VICE PRESIDENT)
- RYAN BLAIR (SECRETARY)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Serve as a liason between the alumni of the university of Tennessee turfgrass science program and its staff, faculty, industry partners, and current and prospective students.
What it reported doing in 2025
Facilitate personal and professional relationships between former and current students in the form of networking for potential internships. Additionally, vit will keep alumni and current students informed of events, changes, and initiatives that affect the alumni and/or the program as it relates to their situation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 52% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.