Freedom Rowers Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800120206
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Easton, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4109246621
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Swimming & Other Water Recreation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $44,997
- Expenses
- $46,447
- Assets
- $29,665
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Alan Lowrey (Board President)
- Chloe Allen (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Sarah Moerschel (Treasurer)
- Alan Lowrey (Board President)
- Wendy Palmer (Director)
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
Co-educational junior rowing team on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. By teaching the commitment and discipline rowing requires, the organization boosts growth and self-esteem while opening doors for scholastic, community and personal achievement.
What it reported doing in 2025
A successful 2025 rowing season included Winter, Spring and Fall seasons with Learn-To-Row sessions for new rowers, daily training on and off the water, several regattas. Between 20 and 30 rowers participated in each session.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 77% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.2%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 46.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $46K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2012 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.