Orion Fencing
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474540924
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Vancouver, WA, USA
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Amateur Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $186,759
- Expenses
- $179,104
- Assets
- $9,558
- Liabilities
- $219,060
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Justin Meehan (chairman)
- Kaela Meehan (secretary)
- Lynn Spitaleri Handlin (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Fencing instruction & promotion
What it reported doing in 2024
Fencing instruction & promotion foil epee & sabre class for youth & addults, referee instruction, hosting tournament & outreach local schools
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 85% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.7%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 98.7%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.1%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 22.92; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.7% of revenue deployed · 98.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $177K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.