Washington · Nonprofit
WHATCOM ROWING ASSOCIATION
WHATCOM ROWING ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,145 to it, the largest being George Pocock Rowing Foundation ($7,521). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $192k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $238k
What Whatcom Rowing Association does
Mission
Whatcom Rowing Association is a volunteer led community organization providing youth and adults with the skills, joys, fitness, teamwork and camaraderie of the sport of rowing. WRA offers recreational and competitive opportunities for the entire community surrounding Whatcom County from middle school age children to senior citizens through the lifelong sport of rowing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Participants range in age for 12 years to 86 years with novice and experienced rowers sharing equipment, classes and resources out of the Bob Diehl Boathouse at Bloedel Donovan Park. The Association's membership continues to grow with over 150 individuals on the active roster in Junior and Masters Programs. During 2025, WRA is taking on it's first advertising and promotion campaign utilizing Whatcom Transit buses with the goal to increase reach to all areas of the county, specifically through the Summer Junior program that will resume in June. WRA continues to introduce hundreds of middle school students to the sport of rowing through the Erg Education program, which is a partnership with the Bellingham School District and provides a platform for WRA and trained staff to teach rowing as a 2-week unit in the PE curriculum. The Junior program remained strong despite a coaching and leadership turnover in 2024 with a solid core of returning students as well as new athletes. WRA shifted to a fully volunteer led structure for 2025 upon the transition of the prior Director into a collegiate coaching role, and after some growing pains, is well on target to see growth in participation,…
$146,175 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $146,175.
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 2021 to 2022, from $255k to $223k (−12%).
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.
29% of WHATCOM ROWING ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $34.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 WHATCOM ROWING ASSOCIATION’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
WHATCOM ROWING ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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
75% 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 WHATCOM ROWING ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 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
75% of WHATCOM ROWING ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Washington funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $124 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
WHATCOM ROWING ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WHATCOM ROWING ASSOCIATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WHATCOM ROWING ASSOCIATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WHATCOM ROWING ASSOCIATION?
- WHATCOM ROWING ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,145 to it, the largest being George Pocock Rowing Foundation ($7,521). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHATCOM ROWING ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $10,145 in grants to WHATCOM ROWING ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHATCOM ROWING ASSOCIATION?
- George Pocock Rowing Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $7,521 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHATCOM ROWING ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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