Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237232617
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Anchorage, AK, USA
- Phone
- 9072767609
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Amateur Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,249,337
- Expenses
- $1,718,113
- Assets
- $3,583,683
- Liabilities
- $132,428
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- William Earnhart (President)
- Joey Caterinichio (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Kikkan Randall (Executive Dir.): $93,841 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage (NSAA) is dedicated to promoting all forms of Nordic skiing as a healthy form of individual and family activity. NSAA's primary activity is to build, groom and maintain over 140 kilometers of spectacular world class trails in Anchorage. Since the 1960's, NSAA has been introducing Alaskans to cross country skiing and developing youth athletes through learn-to-ski programs, biathlon, Nordic ski jumping, and back-country tours. Each winter, NSAA hosts dozens of local and national-level ski competitions and community events for skiers of all ages and abilities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Nordic Competition consists of well-run events and races that NSAA hosts. Our Tour of Anchorage is the most popular, offering a 25K, 40K and 50K groomed course throughout Anchorage's trail system. It also includes the Anchorage Cup which is a series of races throughout the season that differs in distances and courses but challenges participants in both classic and skate disciplines. Other races in this grouping include: middle and high school races that NSAA officiates and grooms, as well as the SKAN24, a 24 hour race offered in the spring that challenges individuals and teams in a different way than other races.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 80.4%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $2,848.74 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 52.8%; rating input score 53; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 23.6%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.09; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.5%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67% of revenue deployed · 80.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $94K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 33 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 53/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.