Bluffton Paddle Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 852011690
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Bluffton, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8432635933
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recreational l Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,919
- Expenses
- $8,003
- Assets
- $19,642
- Liabilities
- $525
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Karin Volz (President)
People named in this filing
- Morgan Crutchley (Treasurer)
- Karin Volz (President)
- Margaret Skonberg (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
Regular water excursions to mind/body he
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide guided and planned water excursions of the LowCountry to members and friends.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 61% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 41
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 30.7%; rating input score 31
- Program expense ratio: 57.3%; rating input score 57
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 46.4%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.45; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 27.7% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 47.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 30.7% of revenue deployed · 57.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 31/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.