West Michigan Outlaws
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270239434
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Grandville, MI, USA
- Phone
- 6168908322
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Baseball, Softball
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $318,080
- Expenses
- $310,126
- Assets
- $131,906
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARC UTURO (PRESIDENT/HE)
Highest reported compensation
- MARC UTURO (PRESIDENT/HE): $1,800 total reported compensation
- STEPANIE DEWEY (VP & ORG DIR): $1,500 total reported compensation
- JASON ROELOFS (EQUIPMENT MA): $1,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promote amateur baseball - including coaching, training, and competitive baseball games.
What it reported doing in 2018
Amateur youth baseball
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 63% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 98.4%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.5%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96% of revenue deployed · 98.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $305K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2012 to 2018
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.