Urban Racquet Sports Foundation
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Our mission is to reach and mentor underserved at risk urban youth through year-around tennis and pickleball instruction and character development training; promote reading and healthy nutrition; teach healthy life-long sports with opportunities for advanced competition. Tennis and pickleball is a means through caring volunteers and professional programs to provide character-building guidance with love and encouragement for a brighter future. We also reach and serve the underserved urban adult community with recreation coaching and exercise through our long-term lease with the city to operate and maintain the only tennis and pickleball facility in the city.
- Income
- $69,067
- Spending
- $101,695
- Reserves
- 40.8 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 71%
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (3)
- $39,587 spent. Instruction education and mentoring. Tennis and pickleball is our tool to reach inner-city at-risk youth with an emphasis on character qualities self-confidence building disclipine development reading proficiency and nutrition education. Reaching 100s of youth over the past 18 years through summer on-court activity and winter in-door facilities. In the second year of our new facility that we built after raising $2M in 2019 & 2021 we worked with 134 kids from the local Boys & Girls Club and area city.
- We provided the city public school systems only high school tennis team with our facility to practice and host match play.
- $1,260 spent. We hosted pickleball leagues tournaments mixers as a means to fundraise for the above actives while reaching and helping change the recreational habits of the adult city community that has one of the highest obesity rates in the State of Michigan.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated November 6, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2024.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since September 2006.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated November 4, 2026.
Ratings and checks are our reading of public records, using the published method. They are not a statement about anyone's honesty. If you work for this organization, you can send corrections or results, confirm you want gifts through Veridonate, or ask to be removed from giving.