Ania Ice Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
933101735
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Wooster, OH, USA
Phone
3303458686
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Recreational Centers

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,327,929
Expenses
$1,132,539
Assets
$368,757
Liabilities
$52,583

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • ROB WELLS (DIRECTOR): $119,547 total reported compensation
  • CRAIG MAST (BUSINESS MANAGER): $47,644 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

The alice noble ice arena strives to be the area's premier ice sports facility, promoting the growth of skating, hockey and related activities in wooster and surrounding communities. Ania will offer a positive, clean, and professional environment for area youth and adults to improve and maintain character, self-confidence, and physical fitness.we are dedicated to fostering a strong sense of community in our arena through events, afterschool programs, camps, and other engaging opportunities.

What it reported doing in 2025

Skating - ania offers free skating, the learn to skate program, and the aspire program. Learn to skate (lts) is the only introductory skating program endorsed by u.s. Figure skating, USA hockey, and u.s. Speedskating. Ania's learn to skate program provides a safe and effective progression of skill development, preparing the skater for success in their chosen ice-skating sport, as well as an enjoyable recreational experience. Ania's aspire program includes an accelerated pace of learning as skaters progress through the free skate 1-6 curriculum. In addition, skaters will be exposed to a variety of learn to skate and u.s. Figure skating opportunities. Aspire classes are held twice per week and include off-ice conditioning and on-ice practice.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 85% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 65
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 69
  • Sustainability: 42
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 69%; rating input score 69
  • Program expense ratio: 79.1%; rating input score 79
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 14.7%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14.8%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -15.5% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 90.4% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 69% of revenue deployed · 79.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $896K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $120K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.