New Fairfield Aquaflyers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800352026
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New Fairfield, CT, USA
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $146,822
- Expenses
- $127,497
- Assets
- $175,550
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Melanie Welsh (President)
People named in this filing
- Melanie Welsh (President)
- Brittany Kozlenko (Treasurer)
- Kerynne Mino (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 purpose of this organization is to encourage competitive swimming in the spirit of good sportsmanship broaden the base of swimming in the greater New Fairfield CT area and to expose children to the satisfaction of personal achievement. Through this activity children are provided an atmosphere where they can enjoy the camaraderie of a team sport while developing long lasting swimming skills.
What it reported doing in 2025
New Fairfield Aquaflyers offer 2 competitive swim seasons per year for its members ages 5-18. Swimmers are coached according to their age and skill level by accomplished and certified coaches. Each season between 80 and 120 swimmers join the team.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.3%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 82.2%; rating input score 82
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.2%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.38; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.5% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.3% of revenue deployed · 82.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $105K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.