Block Island Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 050208662
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2010
- Location
- Block Island, RI, USA
- Phone
- 4014665939
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Sports Associations &Training Facilities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $371,055
- Expenses
- $412,017
- Assets
- $902,857
- Liabilities
- $28,411
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KRISTIN NEVINS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KRISTIN NEVINS (PRESIDENT)
- BRIAN CASEY (VICE PRESIDE)
- ALIX SPALLONE (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The block island club exists for the benefit of the entire island community, including, but not limited to, full-time residents of block island, summer residents and visitors to block island. Its purpose is to promote the general welfare of the island community through recreational and educational programs for children and adults, including, but not limited to, sailing and seamanship, swimming and water safety, tennis and arts and crafts. The block island club further exists to promote an appreciation of the unique character of block island's natural environment among children and adults in the community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provides tennis, sailing, arts and crafts, and swimming lessons as well as other family activities. Lessons are primarily for children. Costs include instructors' wages, supplies, and boat and dock maintenance and depreciation. The bi club is open summers only and approximately 200 families joined in 2024.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 82% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90.8%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.19; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $374K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.