Carolinas Irrigation Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 561555508
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Wake Forest, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9198892275
- Rating
- 34
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,464
- Expenses
- $68,243
- Assets
- $13,159
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HAMILTON GARVEY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- HAMILTON GARVEY (PRESIDENT)
- JASON SHANABARGER (VICE PRESIDE)
- CLARK O'NEILL (PAST PRESIDE)
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 increase professionalism in the landscape irrigation industry by providing educational opportunities, endorsing ethical business practices and raising the level of understanding of the industry to the public.
What it reported doing in 2025
Increase professionalism in the landscape irrigation industry by providing educational opportunities, endorsing ethical business practices, creating working relationships, influencing industry friendly legislation and raising the level of understanding of the industry by the public.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Transfer-based 990-EZ. The 990-EZ reports grants or member benefits, but it does not separate enough spending to show the nonprofit’s full delivery mix.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0.3%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.9%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0.3% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.