Gastonia East Rotary Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237096884
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Gastonia, NC, US
- Phone
- 980-285-7782
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $120,493
- Expenses
- $131,549
- Assets
- $117,076
- Liabilities
- $7,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDREA SIPKA (PAST PRESIDENT)
- JENNIFER THOMAS (PRESIDENT)
- JENNIFER KILLEN (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
People named in this filing
- ANDREA SIPKA (PAST PRESIDENT)
- JENNIFER THOMAS (PRESIDENT)
- JENNA JOURDET (TREASURER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Service Above Self
What it reported doing in 2024
Gastonia east rotary provides service to others, promotes high ethical standards, advances world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 72% for direct work, and 28% for grants.
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: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.5%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 83.8%; rating input score 84
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: -9.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.89; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 91.5% of revenue deployed · 83.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $110K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.