North Star Community Rowing
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812228339
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Rating
- 34
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,214
- Expenses
- $64,790
- Assets
- $75,566
- Liabilities
- $5,093
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- Penelope Pate Greene (Director)
- Luke Waschbusch (Treasurer)
- Chris Boyer (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
North Star Community Rowing empowers individuals, transforms lives and builds community through the sport of rowing. NSCR promotes diversity and inclusion in the sport of rowing by expanding access to two populations who traditionally have been excluded from the sport. Our programs create recreation opportunities for Minneapolis youth and adults beyond those that are currently available, particularly youth from under-served communities and individuals with physical disabilities.
What it reported doing in 2025
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ North Star Community Rowing (NSCR) provided adaptive and community rowing programming to 37 individuals through 99 total enrollments across five program offerings in 2025: three Indoor Rowing sessions, one Race Training session, and one Summer on-the-water Rowing session. Approximately 70% of participants were Adaptive athletes or U.S. Veterans; core constituencies included older adults with disabilities and individuals lacking financial access to private rowing clubs. Indoor Rowing was held at Base Camp in Fort Snelling/Bloomington, MN, in partnership with Northern Star Scouting, totaling 29 weeks and 664 programming hours (up 62% from 2024). On-the-water and Race Training programs were held at Silverwood Park/Silver Lake in St. Anthony, MN, in partnership with Three Rivers Park District, serving 9 athletes at the Minneapolis Sprints Regatta and generating 233 training hours. NSCR expanded its equipment inventory with a donated trailer and five rowing shells, and added a half-time Program Director effective July 1, 2025. Volunteers contributed 486 hours of program support.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 71% 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. 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: 29
- 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: -17.3%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.17; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.7%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -21.2% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 35th 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 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- 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.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.