Blue Ridge Fencing Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 823252957
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Phone
- 4349530056
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Amateur Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $123,858
- Expenses
- $119,065
- Assets
- $47,523
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jennifer Poole (Executive director, ex officio member, Board of Directors)
- Steven Shipman (President, Board of Directors)
People named in this filing
- Jennifer Poole (Executive director, ex officio member, Board of Directors)
- Steven Shipman (President, Board of Directors)
- Nicholas Cady (Treasurer, Board of Directors)
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
To promote fencing and to provide high-quality instruction in the modern sport of Olympic-style fencing for those in the Charlottesville, Virginia area and its surrounding communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Taught twelve weekly classes to an estimated forty children and twelve adults. Ran two week-long summer camps for a total of 18 campers. Provided three open fencing sessions each week, with an average attendance at each session of seven participants.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 92% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.7%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 71.8%; rating input score 72
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: 3.9%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.5%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.7% of revenue deployed · 71.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $85K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.