Whitecaps Community Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454129451
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2013, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Comstock Park, MI, USA
- Phone
- 6163366587
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $100,123
- Expenses
- $131,207
- Assets
- $104,808
- Liabilities
- $103,097
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSEPH CHAMBERLIN (PRESIDENT/DI)
People named in this filing
- JOSEPH CHAMBERLIN (PRESIDENT/DI)
- DENNIS BAXTER (TREASURER)
- LEWIS CHAMBERLIN (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization plans to engage in a number of charitable activities. Its various activities will include teaching children the basic fundamentals of the game of baseball, sponsorship of a reading club in conjuction with local elementary schools in the greater west Michigan area and making grants to other nonprofit, irc sec 501(c)(3) organizations. These activities teach sportsmanship and the positive values of respect, responsibility, honesty and caring and to bolster childrens reading abilities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Organize management of an annual youth baseball clinic. This clinic, which is in the nature of a two-day camp (day camp) is designed to give children instruction and training in the basic fundamentals of the game of baseball. The program also teaches sportsmanship and the positive values of respect, responsibility, honesty, and caring. This clinic is taught by volunteer coaches and baseball players from the west Michigan whitecaps, a professional baseball team that is part of the detroit tigers feeder program. The clinic targetes children ages 8 through 12, with a capacity of approximately 60-80 children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 80% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 69% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 51
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 83.5%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 85.9%; rating input score 86; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -31%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.98; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 83.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $110K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 22 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.