American Waterways Operators Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 530173915
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Arlington, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7038419300
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,984,687
- Expenses
- $7,577,700
- Assets
- $15,705,619
- Liabilities
- $8,811,977
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
73 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER CARPENTER (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JENNIFER CARPENTER (PRESIDENT & CEO): $750,879 total reported compensation
- CRAIG MONTESANO (VP, LEG AFFAIRS): $275,343 total reported compensation
- CARMINA SMITH (SVP, OPS & ADMIN): $262,507 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The american waterways operators is the tugboat, towboat, and barge industry's advocate, resource and united voice for safe, sustainable and efficient transporation on america's waterways, oceans, and coasts.
What it reported doing in 2024
Advocacy - awo serves as the leading national advocate for the tugboat, towboat and barge industry with the u.s. Congress, administration, federal agencies, and state governments. Awo promotes the industry's value to the nation as a driver of the u.s. Economy that provides family-wage jobs and moves the nation's freight safely while reducing air and water pollution, relieving traffic congestion, and protecting homeland security. Awo staff and members advocate for sound legislation, regulation and public policy that enables the industry to continue to provide jobs and move the nation's commerce safely, sustainably and efficiently.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
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: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.1%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.07; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.56; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 38.8%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 61 of 61 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $751K · 73 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $239K reported
- Consistency: 14 of 15 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 19 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.