Columbia Gorge Wind and Water Assoc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 930974698
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Hood River, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5413869225
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $72,996
- Expenses
- $35,605
- Assets
- $185,605
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL STROUD (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MICHAEL STROUD (PRESIDENT)
- MICHAEL SCHOCK (VICE PRESIDE)
- COLLEEN CARROL (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
The primary purpose of the columbia gorge wind and water association (cgw2) is to advocate on behalf of the columbia gorge wind-riding community, to establish, protect, and maintain recreational access to the columbia river in the gorge; to encourage, facilitate, and provide youth with gorge wind- riding opportunities; and to inform and promote sound safety practices.
What it reported doing in 2025
1) site access: the cgw2 owns and maintains swell city, a water launch site in the heart of the columbia river gorge. This provides river access to over 120 people and their families who are able to recreate on the water via this site. 2) youth program: the cgw2 maintains a youth water & windsurfing program that allows young people and their family's access to windsurfing and safety equipment for low cost of entry. Over 46 youth and their families were supported directly in this program in 2023. We also support another non-profit, wylde wind & water, that provides youth watersports training and safety instruction. 3) youth competition: the cgw2 supported the bridge of the gods kitefest & blowout and the mt. Hood megaloop competition. Each of these are youth competitions in watersports such as kiteboarding and wing foiling. Over 160 people participated in these activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 47.2%; rating input score 47
- Program expense ratio: 99%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 51.2%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.21; rating input score 84; 84th 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: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 47.2% of revenue deployed · 99% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $35K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 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 47/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.