Guild Athletic Club & Event Center
Legal name: Guild Athletic Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821435077
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Columbus, Ohio, United States
- Phone
- 6142211077
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Recreation& Sports N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $-740
- Expenses
- $12,618
- Assets
- $65,166
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN CIARDELLI JR (PRESIDENT)
- DANA ROSE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JERRY BOLOGNONE (PAST PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- RICHARD CIARDELLI (TREASURER): $5,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Guild Athletic Club is a charity organization established in 1931.
What it reported doing in 2025
Death benefits of $2039 to families of deceased members
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 45% for grants, and 55% for member benefits.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 22
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 29.6%; rating input score 30
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1,805.1%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.16; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 43.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -147.1% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 29.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $6K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.