Asheville Youth Rowing Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261906316
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2011, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Asheville, NC, USA
- Phone
- 8283378109
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Swimming & Other Water Recreation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $179,131
- Expenses
- $180,030
- Assets
- $198,101
- Liabilities
- $7,560
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JACK GARTNER (PRESIDENT /)
People named in this filing
- JACK GARTNER (PRESIDENT /)
- MARTHA WILLIAMS (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
Asheville youth rowing association is a nonprofit 501c3 public corporation dedicated to promoting the sport of rowing among teenagers between the ages of 11 and 18 years as a means of instilling discipline, teaching teamwork, attaining physical fitness, and teaching the sport of rowing in order to help young people gain admission to college and/or other educational efforts, obtain scholarships for educational efforts and/or to succeed in a life endeavor. The association functions without preference to race, creed, religion, or color in western North Carolina.
What it reported doing in 2025
By teaching and promoting the sport of rowing, participating students have benefited in achievement of their personal and academic goals. In the spring of 2025, we graduated 7 seniors. Six of those seniors received scholarships to row in college. Ayra qualified four boats for us rowing nationals in june 2025, depsite being unable to use its boathouse for a period of months after hurricane helene. Asheville youth rowing association does not publish the names and identifying information of any team member in order to protect the privacy of minors; however, all of our kids received positive publicity from local television staitons, newspapers, and magazines. Former members of the organization are now rowing, have rowed, or will row at the following colleges: Alabama, berry college, brown, clemson, clark university, davidson college, dartmouth college, duquesne, Georgia tech, jacksonville university, Kansas, louisville, manhattan college, nc state, notre dame, puget sound, stetson, syracuse, unc-chapel hill, union college, united states naval academy, university of charleston wv, university of Oregon, university of Tennessee, and worchester polytech. Rowing is the ultimate team sport. At asheville youth rowing association, there are no stars--just boats.
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 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.8%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 93.2%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.5%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.1; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.8% of revenue deployed · 93.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $168K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.