Swordwind Historical Swordsmanship
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 882660565
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Gastonia, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9806668201
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $84,282
- Expenses
- $62,917
- Assets
- $27,923
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Britney Atwell (President)
- Andrew Osprysko (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Britney Atwell (President)
- Andrew Osprysko (Vice President)
- Deborah Timmons (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 purpose of this corporation is to is to promote the research and education of historical European Martial traditions and practices by engaging in research, transcription, and translation of historic manuscripts, acquiring period accurate historic replicas and/or training equipment that allow our members and the public to develop an accurate understanding of how the equipment was historically used, offering classes that help educate our members and the general public , schedule events the promote historic martial arts practices, and promote social events that encourage the exchange of ideas relating to historic European martial arts.
What it reported doing in 2025
Created class offerings for our member for historic use of weapons that include the long swords, side sword, staff, partisans ( poleax & Spear), small sword, messer, and sickle. Classes are available to all members and members of the public are allowed to watch the classes. Invited instructors for other schools to teach work shops for our members. Attended community events to promote Historical European Martial Arts and provided demonstrations during those events. Attended community events to demonstrate different historical techniques and weaponry used. Spoke to attendees about historical time frame of the when the manuscripts and treaties were written and how we are applying them to todays training.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 92% 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
SUPPORTED - 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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.1%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 84.6%; rating input score 85
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.3%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 29; 29th 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: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 83% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.1% of revenue deployed · 84.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $53K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.