Augusta Rowing Club Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581604135
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Augusta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7063948458
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $189,245
- Expenses
- $190,154
- Assets
- $338,796
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kirsten Aylward (President)
- Alan Struna (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Kirsten Aylward (President)
- Ben Kinard (Treasurer)
- Alan Struna (Vice President)
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
Amateur, youth, and collegiate Sport of rowing support and encouragement of competition.
What it reported doing in 2025
Actively working with rowing organizations (ACC, NCAA, ITR, SIRA, etc.) on feasibility of holding regattas at Langley Pond. Actively working to have Augusta host the Head of the Hooch regatta as well as the Head of the South Held two Learn to Row Classes (May and August) Held two open houses Tripled the size of the junior program (from six to 20 rowers) Added two volunteer coaches to support the program including a former Olympic coach and a former member of the National U23 US Rowing team Held the Augusta Invitational Regatta and Southeast Masters Regionals at Langley Pond and the Head of the South Regatta on the Savannah River Hosted two spring training teams from high schools Juniors and Masters attended numerous regattas for competition Hosted the first ever Ergathon at the Augusta Rowing Club One rower was awarded the USRowing Scholar Athlete status One rower was awarded a full rowing scholarship to Harvard University Held a fall/winter lecture series on nutrition, Olympic training, overcoming adversity, power of the mind, GirlTalk, etc. Over $1.6 million in local economy due to rowing events Supported the Greater Augusta Sports Council with events such as the Augusta Half Marathon (17), the Augusta Half IronMan (23) Expanded publicity of the club and the sport with ~2 television features that discussed rowing and the status of the boathouse Continued to expand partnerships with local governments and business leaders on the next generation boathouse and expanding rowing in the Augusta area so that it is a hub for rowing in the Southeast US. Developed effort to Grow the Row, expanding exposure of the impact of the rowing club in the area, moving into high schools, expanding scope of open houses, better defining the junior program and adult Learn to Row, branding, etc.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.2%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 61.9%; rating input score 62
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.5%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.78; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.2% of revenue deployed · 61.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $118K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.