McDowell Water Polo Boosters
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 932409115
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Erie, PA, USA
- Phone
- 8146024839
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,614
- Expenses
- $6,287
- Assets
- $2,815
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dave Austin (President)
People named in this filing
- Dave Austin (President)
- Renee Post (Co-Vice Preside)
- Leann Williams (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
McDowell Water Polo Boosters' mission is to support student-athletes through a competitive, inclusive, and team-oriented water polo program that promotes leadership, discipline, and personal growth. Through practices, games, team events, and community involvement, the organization provides student-athletes with opportunities to strengthen their athletic abilities, build meaningful relationships, and develop extended social, interpersonal, and academic skills. The organization is dedicated to fostering sportsmanship, school pride, academic balance, and a positive environment where every student-athlete can grow, contribute, and succeed.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization achieved its exempt purpose by providing student-athletes with opportunities to participate in organized water polo practices, games, tournaments, and team events that promote physical fitness, teamwork, leadership, and personal development. Through athletic programming and community-building activities, the organization supported the growth of student-athletes both academically and athletically while fostering sportsmanship, school spirit, and positive engagement within the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: NotEnoughData
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: 27%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 29; 29th 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.