Road Runners of America Aka Howard County Striders

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
521173677
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Columbia, MD, USA
Phone
4106158183
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$54,454
Expenses
$62,318
Assets
$291,299
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Hafiz Shaikh (President)
  • Faye Weaver (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Hafiz Shaikh (President)
  • Faye Weaver (Vice President)
  • Shyam Biswal (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

Promoting lifetime fitness through running

What it reported doing in 2025

Scholarships and Community Support: Howard County Striders provides scholarships to high school senior scholar-athletes and donates to local and national organizations that support activities in line with HCS' mission of lifetime fitness through runing.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 71% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 41% for direct work, 56% for grants, and 3% for member benefits.

The verdict

STRONG - 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: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 51
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 87.9%; rating input score 88
  • Program expense ratio: 87.6%; rating input score 88

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -14.4%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.67; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 87.9% of revenue deployed · 87.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $55K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.