Collegiate Paddlesports Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472473282
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Smyrna, GA, USA
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Swimming & Other Water Recreation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $113,000
- Expenses
- $72,680
- Assets
- $46,180
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Traendly (President)
People named in this filing
- John Traendly (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
To provide safety education and instruction services to paddlers. During the past year the CPA built online course development tools for the American Canoe Association. The CPA also supported paddling programs for the Lanier Canoe and Kayak Club Southeast Paddlesports and the Outdoor Recreation program at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
What it reported doing in 2025
Created online course development tools for the American Canoe Association to support expanded access to safety and skills courses online. The ACA supports over 4,000 certified instructors and their students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.2%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 99.9%; rating input score 100
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: 35.7%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 45; 45th 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: -6.5% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.2% of revenue deployed · 99.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $73K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.