Amateur Radio Ass'n of Newton Co Indiana
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 301002696
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Lake Village, IN, USA
- Phone
- 8154095070
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Disaster Preparedness and Relief Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,499
- Expenses
- $4,508
- Assets
- $75,054
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MIKE SWIADER (PRESIDENT)
- GARY CLARK (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MIKE SWIADER (PRESIDENT)
- GARY CLARK (VICE PRESIDENT)
- HANK COX (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The amateur radio club assists in providing communications for newton county, local communities and other service groups during natural and man made disasters
What it reported doing in 2025
Annual field day, an international disaster communicationdrill: provides experience in disaster reponse andinforms the public of the organizations role in emergeny communicaton
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 82% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 21
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 13.8%; rating input score 14
- Program expense ratio: 32.2%; rating input score 32
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 57.1%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 16.65; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.1% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 13.8% of revenue deployed · 32.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.