Southern Tier Aquatics Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 931715428
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Painted Post, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6076844639
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Amateur Sports Competitions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $158,398
- Expenses
- $170,433
- Assets
- $41,380
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Natalia Hartmann (President, Board of Directors)
People named in this filing
- Natalia Hartmann (President, Board of Directors)
- Mark Hufnagel (Treasurer, Board of Directors)
- Melanie Crisco (Secretary, Board of Directors)
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
Southern Tier Aquatics, Inc. (STAQ) is a year-round competitive swim club which operates exclusively for educational and charitable purposes. We provide swim instructions and training in the underprivileged rural upstate New York area to enable local athletes to successfully compete at regional, national, and international championships.
What it reported doing in 2025
With 45 enrolled swimmers, Senior Swim Team was our largest program during this reporting period. The age range of this group was 13-18 years old. Senior training practices ran Monday through Friday, with a total of approximately 12 training hours per week, including 8.5 hours in the pool and 1.5 hours of dryland workouts. During a typical practice, each swimmer completed between 3-8 miles of swimming depending on the type of practice, type of swim season and the swimmer. Each swim practice included 10 minutes of dynamic stretching, followed by 10-20 minutes of warm-up in the pool, followed by the pre-set where the swimmers were getting ready for the main set. The main set consisted of repetitions of swims for time. During each set, swimmers were working on improving their technique in four competitive strokes - freestyle, backstroke, butterfly and breaststroke. A significant portion of the practice was also spent on the underwaters training whereby swimmers worked on their lung capacity and underwater kicking. The main goal of this program was to prepare athletes for achieving qualifying times for the district, regional and national championships. All senior swimmers competed in a variety of local and regional meets held in Webster, NY, Victor, NY, Buffalo, NY and Ithaca, NY, including the 2025 Niagara Silver Championship, the 2025 Niagara Open Gold Championship, the 2025 Niagara 14 & Under Championship and 2025 Eastern Zone North Speedo Short Course Sectionals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 93% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.7%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 86.2%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.6%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 61.8% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 36.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.7% of revenue deployed · 86.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $147K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.