2026-08-19T15:02:38-07:00 2024-07-31 990EZ 2023-08-01 883209302 NOVA BULLS ORGANIZATION NOVA 7036798002 5794 Gilesburg Drive Haymarket VA 20169 Alora Henry President 7036798002 2026-08-19 1 2023 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X https://www.novabulls.org X X 143050 X 3500 138491 0 0 0 0 0 0 1059 3278 -2219 0 0 0 0 139772 0 0 0 22806 11258 485 93380 127929 11843 -29004 10653 -6508 X 0 25156 0 0 0 0 0 25156 29004 31664 -29004 -6508 Our mission is to provide youth and young adults from diverse backgrounds with a safe, supportive environment where they can develop athletic skills, confidence, leadership, discipline, and teamwork. Through organized sports, mentoring, and educational opportunities, we empower participants to reach their full potential and become respectful, responsible, and engaged members of their communities. NOVA Bulls provided youth and young adults in the Northern Virginia and greater DMV communities with structured basketball training, competitive playing opportunities, mentoring, and community-based educational activities in a safe and supportive environment. During the year, participants received instruction addressing financial literacy, leadership, communication, conflict resolution, self-esteem, healthy living, mental wellness, fire and public safety, technology careers, and entrepreneurship. The organization expanded athletic-development opportunities through specialized skills training, participation in competitive leagues and tournaments, and acceptance into the NXTPRO/PUMA basketball circuit, providing players with increased exposure to college coaches and scouts. Four NOVA Bulls players advanced to higher levels of competitive play. The organization also hosted community activities, including a Back-to-School Bash that provided children with backpacks and school supplies, and worked with local agencies, community leaders, mentors, coaches, and families to strengthen support for participating youth. These programs addressed the community's need for accessible, structured activities that combine athletic development with mentorship, practical life skills, positive adult guidance, and opportunities for long-term personal and educational growth. 0 127929 127929 Alora Henry Board member, President 5 0 0 0 DeMarcus Henry Board member 10 0 0 0 Landus Hall Board Member, Treasurer 10 0 0 0 Heather Swart Board Member, Secretary 4 0 0 0 Melissa Hall Board Member 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 31664 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 VA Alora Henry 5794 Gilesburg Drive Haymarket VA 20169 7036798002 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 3500 3500 138491 138491 1059 1059 0 0 0 0 0 0 143050 143050 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 143050 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 143050 143050 X Alora Henry President Operating expenses X 20000 20000 0 1 1 Alora Henry President Operating expenses X 6750 6664 0 1 1 Valiyah Henry Family member of president; organization lender. Operating expenses X 5000 5000 0 1 1 31664 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Other expenses before the personal-charge adjustment totaled $93,544.71. This amount consisted of equipment and uniforms of $36,822.82; tournament and league fees of $27,311.60; travel, reimbursements, registration, concessions, and related program activities, net of a $375.00 refund, of $10,858.38; software, administration, fundraising software, advertising, and promotion of $5,631.52; payment-processing and bank fees of $5,213.21; program supplies, team meals, and office supplies of $4,079.95; off-bank operating costs funded by a related-party loan of $3,000.00; insurance of $343.68; and taxes and licenses of $283.55. After excluding $165.00 of personal charges treated as a balance-sheet settlement, other expenses reported on line 16 totaled $93,379.71. Direct fundraising-event expenses reported separately on line 6c are not included. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20 The organization reported beginning net assets of ($29,004) on its prior-year return. During the current-year reconciliation, the organization identified $1,649.59 of cash held at July 31, 2023 that had not been included on the prior-year balance sheet. The reconciliation also determined that $9,004 of liabilities reported on the prior-year return did not correspond to any outstanding obligation reflected in the organization's loan agreements, Schedule L detail, or accounting records. Accordingly, line 20 reports a prior-period adjustment of $10,653.59, consisting of the previously omitted cash of $1,649.59 and the correction of the $9,004 liability balance. Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26 Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26 and Part V, Lines 38a-38b - Loans From Interested Persons At July 31, 2024, the organization's liabilities consisted entirely of interest-free operating loans from Alora Henry and Valiyah Henry that funded its exempt youth-basketball activities. The outstanding balances were $20,000 on the first Alora Henry note, $6,664 on the second Alora Henry note after applying an $86 personal-charge offset, and $5,000 on the Valiyah Henry note, resulting in total year-end liabilities of $31,664. Each loan is reported separately in Schedule L, Part II. NOVA BULLS ORGANIZATION EIN: 88-3209302 2023 Form 990-EZ Tax period: August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2024 Original due date: December 16, 2024 Date filed: August 19, 2026 REQUEST FOR REASONABLE-CAUSE RELIEF UNDER SECTION 6652(c) NOVA Bulls Organization respectfully requests abatement of any late-filing penalty under section 6652(c). The failure to file timely resulted from serious and overlapping caregiving, bereavement, medical, and family circumstances affecting the individual solely responsible for the organization's bookkeeping, recordkeeping, and administrative compliance. I serve as the organization's president and was its only administrative and bookkeeping person during the relevant period. For several months before April 2024, I provided substantial care for my terminally ill father, who suffered from a progressive neurological disease. He died on April 10, 2024. Following his death, I continued assisting my mother and managing related family responsibilities. During the same period, I experienced a series of significant medical events requiring multiple procedures, prolonged recovery, continuing medical evaluation, and repeated follow-up care. An underlying medical condition complicated my recovery from major surgery in May 2024, resulting in reduced stamina and temporary restrictions on lifting and strenuous activity for approximately four months. I required an additional procedure in August 2024 and underwent continuing cardiac evaluation from December 2024 through March 2025. I subsequently underwent another major surgery in July 2025 and required further recovery. These circumstances occurred consecutively and, at times, simultaneously. They disrupted the organization's administrative operations during the fiscal year and continued through the period in which the return should have been prepared and filed. Because NOVA Bulls is a small, volunteer-operated organization with no paid administrative staff and, at that time, no trained backup, no other person was available to assume responsibility for its bookkeeping, compliance calendar, or annual-return process. Consequently, the organization's books and supporting records were not fully organized and reconciled in the form necessary to prepare a complete and accurate return by the due date. The filing deadline was not correctly tracked, and no extension was requested. The failure was not intentional and did not result from a decision to disregard the organization's filing obligations. Following the medical events, significant family and legal responsibilities continued to require my attention. By July 2026, the overlapping circumstances had sufficiently stabilized for me to resume the organization's administrative work. I promptly began reconstructing and reconciling the organization's financial records in August 2026. The period immediately preceding filing was required to reconstruct the organization's financial activity from source records. I collected and rebuilt the accounting records, reconciled bank and payment-processor activity, verified balance-sheet accounts, reviewed expense documentation, prepared the required schedules, and completed the delinquent return. Because the records required reconstruction from bank statements, processor reports, receipts, and other third-party records, the return could not responsibly be completed without this review. The organization has taken corrective measures to prevent recurrence. It has established a written compliance calendar identifying the due date for each annual return, designated an additional board member to monitor filing deadlines, and implemented independent review of bank reconciliations, related-party transactions, financial statements, and annual returns. The governing body reviewed the completed return before submission. Supporting documentation concerning the caregiving, bereavement, medical treatment, financial reconstruction, and corrective governance measures is retained by the organization and is available to the IRS upon request. The organization exercised ordinary business care by preserving its underlying financial records, reconstructing and verifying its activity before filing, and implementing controls to prevent recurrence. Considering the continuous and extraordinary circumstances, the organization's limited volunteer staffing, its prompt corrective actions once those circumstances stabilized, and its efforts to submit a complete and accurate return, NOVA Bulls Organization respectfully requests abatement of any late-filing penalty based on reasonable cause. Under penalties of perjury, I declare that I have examined this statement and, to the best of my knowledge and belief, it is true, correct, and complete. Alora Henry, President NOVA Bulls Organization Telephone: 703-679-8002 Date: August 19, 2026