Manhattan Community Boathouse Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464367592
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 8477040116
- Rating
- 36
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parks and Playgrounds
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,431
- Expenses
- $12,636
- Assets
- $11,047
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michael Petite (President)
- Kaitlin Peterson (Vice President of Trips & Training)
People named in this filing
- Michael Petite (President)
- Kathryn Gillespie (Secretary)
- Charles Nork (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The corporation is formed to provide the general public with access to the Hudson River and to encourage safe recreational human-powered boating in New York City. The corporation will maintain a public boathouse in Hudson River Park, where it will operate a walk-up kayaking program, offer its dock as a public launch site for all human-powered boating, and lead guided kayak trips on the Hudson River. The corporation will also operate similar walk-up kayaking programs in other public parks within New York City. All operations of the corporation will be staffed entirely by volunteers, provided at no cost to participants, and funded by donations from the public.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our program provided free walk-up kayaking for 12,065 people, including 1,549 children. Over 4,469 of those participants were repeat visitors. (We love our neighborhood regulars!) We had 96 people attend a new volunteer orientation in 2025 to learn how to get involved with MCBH. In total, our volunteers clocked over 889 volunteer shifts, which amounts to more than 3,100 volunteer hours contributed this year. We taught 45 classes on paddling skills and water safety, attended by a combined 307 attendees. Over 82 volunteers practiced on-water kayak rescues. A combined 243 paddlers participated in river trips over the course of the season.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.1%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -35.2% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.6% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.4% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.