Outrigger Santa Cruz
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770337815
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8312278223
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Swimming & Other Water Recreation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,060
- Expenses
- $74,486
- Assets
- $148,422
- Liabilities
- $3,024
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jenny Scala (President)
- Kim Chamlin (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Jenny Scala (President)
- Kim Chamlin (Vice President)
- Michele Pomroy (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The overarching purpose of this organization is to improve the the quality of life for persons of all ages, with or without physical or cultural disadvantages or disabilities, without regard to age, gender, creed, ethnicity, sexual preference, or physical ability.
What it reported doing in 2025
The overarching purpose of the organization will be achieved in the following ways: (1) Foster and develop community outreach programs with area schools, churches, and other organizations serving the able-bodied, disables, culturally disadvantaged and persons of all age groups to promote cross-cultural understanding, environmental awareness and clean ocean water activities. (2) Develop, implement and promote recreational outrigger canoe paddling activities for people of any age group or cultural background, regardless of physical or mental ability or disability. This includes providing training, coaching, water safety, equipment and organized recreational paddling to promote psychological, physical and therapeutic benefits for all participants. (3) Develop, implement, promote and participate in all levels of outrigger canoe racing, and to actively promote races for all people regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, cultural orientation or physical ability. (4) Promote health, fitness and cross-cultural understanding and cooperation among people of all nationalities and orientations regardless of physical abilities. (5) Enhance the cooperation among athletes, educators, and concerned individuals in promoting the welfare of all participants utilizing outrigger canoeing as a vehicle for teamwork, team building and cross-cultural cooperation. (6) Expand the publics understanding of and appreciation for the culture and practice of outrigger canoeing and its historical relationship to the peoples and cultural traditions of Hawaii, Polynesia and other pacific island cultures.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 62% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 5
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 4.9%; rating input score 5
- Program expense ratio: 5.5%; rating input score 6
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.3%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.99; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 4.9% of revenue deployed · 5.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4K 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: 8 filing years from 2018 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 5/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.