Youth Tennis San Diego

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
956095644
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
Location
San Diego, CA, USA
Phone
6192219000
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$5,674,300
Expenses
$5,461,898
Assets
$8,223,088
Liabilities
$1,393,250

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

25 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • RYAN REDONDO (CEO)
  • JACK MCGRORY (President & CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • RYAN REDONDO (CEO): $318,489 total reported compensation
  • STEPHEN ADAMSON (TENNIS DIR): $259,030 total reported compensation
  • RAIFF DOERR (CFO): $170,871 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Youth Tennis San Diego (the Organization) was incorporated under the laws of the State of California in 1953, as a Nonprofit Benefit Corporation. The purpose of the Organization is to promote the educational, physical, and social development for all youth through organized tennis and educational activities. The community programs encourage participation, personal integrity, leadership, and competitive spirit in a friendly environment that builds responsible citizens.

What it reported doing in 2025

Junior Development: As a community service, Youth Tennis San Diego provides thousands of youngsters each year the opportunity to play tennis after school at their neighborhood school. The After-School Tennis program provides a safe haven for hundreds of youngsters who are not supervised after school. Through tennis, the children are learning the success skills which will give them the confidence and self-esteem to confront the negativeinfluences so often found on the streets where they live. Several times a year, the children travel to the Barnes Tennis Center to participate in special tennis events. This is often their first exposure to a real tennis court. Other programs include recreational opportunities, local and national competitive, educational seminars, kids-helping-kids projects, and partnership programs with local school districts and youth organizations. Youth Tennis San Diego also provide youth with camp opportunities during the summer months. The camp includes tennis instruction and fun, featuring USPTA and USPTR pros along with college players. Personal skills evaluation, Camp T-shirt, Awards, Match Play, and Practice and Play.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 77% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 63.1%; rating input score 63
  • Program expense ratio: 66.6%; rating input score 67
  • Fundraising efficiency: $1.37 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • 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: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.7%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.51; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 22.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 63.1% of revenue deployed · 66.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $3.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $318K · 25 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $152K reported
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 3/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.