Jefferson Swim League
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472302991
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Phone
- 4344657039
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Swimming & Other Water Recreation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $92,578
- Expenses
- $90,204
- Assets
- $123,541
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EMILY CALLAHAN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- EMILY CALLAHAN (PRESIDENT)
- NORA KERN (VICE PRESIDE)
- ANN TUZSON (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 organization is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code, or corresponding section of any future federal tax code. Bylaws: article i, paragraph 2 to insure a summer age group swimming program in the central Virginia area for local swimmers to swim competitively and to provide a maximum opportunity for the greatest number to participate. We are a community athletic organization that provides a league for local swimmers to swim competitively in the summer. We have no employees and no officers are compensated. Swimmers participate in the league through their individual teams or clubs. We offer fee waivers to disadvantaged swimmers upon request by their sponsoring teams or clubs. We raise all of our own funds and frequently make donation to another local swim organization, ben hair--just swim for life, which is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization with a goal of teaching kids how to swim. T
What it reported doing in 2025
We are a community athletic organization that provides a league for local summer age group swimmers in the central Virginia area to swim competitively in the summer.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 77% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.4%; rating input score 97
- 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: 2.6%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.37; rating input score 56; 56th 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: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $90K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 23 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.