Maryland · Nonprofit
BETHESDA CENTER OF EXCELLENCE DBA POTOMAC WHITEWATER RACING CENTER
BETHESDA CENTER OF EXCELLENCE DBA POTOMAC WHITEWATER RACING CENTER (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,229 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $102k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $103k
What Bethesda Center of Excellence Dba Potomac Whitewater Racing Center does
Mission
The mission of the potomac whitewater racing center (pwrc) is to promote the sports of slalom and wildwater canoe and kayak racing, including providing high-quality year-round whitewater slalom training to all actively training and racing pwrc athletes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Coaching: pwrc coaches provide year-round instruction in whitewater slalom canoe and kayak to around 20 paddlers in the washington, dc area. This coaching takes place primarily on the feeder canal in bethesda, but coaches and athletes also travel to slalom training camps and races in charlotte, nc, montgomery, al and oklahoma city, as well as in europe. Many pwrc athletes go on to make the junior, u23, and senior us national slalom teams and compete at the olympics, world championships, world cups, and other national and international races. Pwrc also runs a summer camp to recruit and encourage young whitewater paddlerstravel expenses: pwrc coaches travel to national and international training camps and races to coach pwrc athletes. In the summer of 2024, pwrc coaches traveled with members of the us national team to europe for junior and u23 world championships in liptovsky mikulas, slovakia. In the us, pwrc coaches coached groups at us team trials in montgomery, al and oklahoma city; at us national championships in charlotte, nc; and at one training camp in montgomery, al.
$137,506 spent88% of program spendingTraining facilities: pwrc maintains race-ready slalom gates at the feeder canal at lock 6 of the c&o canal in bethesda, md. These gates are used by hundreds of paddlers each year, including pwrc athletes, students from other kayak training programs and summer camps, as well as the general public. Pwrc maintains a small weight room in brookmont, md that is available to all members. In 2024, pwrc rented time in a swimming pool during the winter so that new paddlers could practice their kayak rolling skills.
$13,420 spent9% of program spendingRaces: pwrc hosted and organized four community slalom races that each drew 20-40 local paddlers to the feeder canal at lock 6 of the c&o canal.
$1,924 spent1% of program spendingAthlete support: in 2024, pwrc provided financial support to six pwrc athletes for their exceptional performance during international races. This includes 3 athletes who made semifinals at junior and u23 world championships in slovakia, and 3 athletes who made semifinals in at least one world cup race in europe.
$2,550 spentof which $2,550 as grants2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $155,400.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $164k to $104k (−37%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
15% of BETHESDA CENTER OF EXCELLENCE DBA POTOMAC WHITEWATER RACING CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $44 → $16.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BETHESDA CENTER OF EXCELLENCE DBA POTOMAC WHITEWATER RACING CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BETHESDA CENTER OF EXCELLENCE DBA POTOMAC WHITEWATER RACING CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BETHESDA CENTER OF EXCELLENCE DBA POTOMAC WHITEWATER RACING CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of BETHESDA CENTER OF EXCELLENCE DBA POTOMAC WHITEWATER RACING CENTER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BETHESDA CENTER OF EXCELLENCE DBA POTOMAC WHITEWATER RACING CENTER's revenue fell 42% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BETHESDA CENTER OF EXCELLENCE DBA POTOMAC WHITEWATER RACING CENTER
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In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
46%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BETHESDA CENTER OF EXCELLENCE DBA POTOMAC WHITEWATER RACING CENTER?
- BETHESDA CENTER OF EXCELLENCE DBA POTOMAC WHITEWATER RACING CENTER (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,229 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BETHESDA CENTER OF EXCELLENCE DBA POTOMAC WHITEWATER RACING CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,229 in grants to BETHESDA CENTER OF EXCELLENCE DBA POTOMAC WHITEWATER RACING CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BETHESDA CENTER OF EXCELLENCE DBA POTOMAC WHITEWATER RACING CENTER?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BETHESDA CENTER OF EXCELLENCE DBA POTOMAC WHITEWATER RACING CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing