Youth Sports Institute of Delaware
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810789041
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Middletown, DE, USA
- Phone
- 3024798800
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Sports Associations &Training Facilities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $40,000
- Expenses
- $43,822
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHELLEY DOUGHERTY (PRESIDENT)
- JOSEPH BROWN (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SHELLEY DOUGHERTY (PRESIDENT)
- JOSEPH BROWN (VICE PRESIDENT)
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 goal of the youth sports institute of Delaware is to facilitate the advancement of young student athletes from Delaware and the surrounding areas. Extending it's arms to embrace young people from all walks of life and to ensure that they receive the best academic, physical and psychological teachings from the most esteemed professionals available. From initial exposure for disadvantaged young children to the experienced club and high school level players, we want to create an environment that will set the benchmark for developmental programs to come. Providing guidance to families and their young athletes in an effort to achieve every possible success. Combining academic, athletic and social direction to better our student athletes, to enable them to become pillars of society and become mentors for our future athletes. Using vision, experience and sports sciences today, to build better student athletes for tomorrow.
What it reported doing in 2024
Continued with our girls empowerment program with our wpsl team, the ospreys. Osprey players ran camps specifically tailored to young, female athletes. Continued with community service and player interactions on game days to show how it is possible to do great things. All osprey players are on college soccer teams and majoring in medical, science and education concentrations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 47
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.9%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 61.1%; rating input score 61
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- 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: -9.6%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.6% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -17.8% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -27.7% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.9% of revenue deployed · 61.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $27K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.