2025-03-18T22:54:03-07:00 2022-12-31 990EZ 2022-01-01 264801410 ROWING CARES ROWI 2037618643 9755 SW Inez Street Tigard OR 97224 Barbara Sanchez-Salazar Secretary 8132223340 2025-01-09 1 2022 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X X rowingcares.org X X 168925 X 168924 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 168925 153524 0 0 2975 0 696 21248 178443 -9518 32753 0 23235 32753 23235 0 0 0 0 32753 23235 0 0 32753 23235 Support of organizations benefitting cancer patients/survivors. Seattle Row for the Cure, back office regatta and business management, event planning and PR benefiting Providence Swedish Breast Cancer Center, Susan G. Komen Foundation, Citrine Health, Carol Milgard Breast Center 76555 7990 San Diego Row for the Cure, back office regatta and business management, event planning and PR benefiting community heath orgs in san Diego and the Susan G. Komen Foundation research fund. 8679 1933 Poughkeepsie Row for the Cure, back office regatta and business management, event planning and PR benefiting community heath orgs in san Diego and the Susan G. Komen Foundation research fund. 5970 602 10525 Beth Kohl President 25 0 0 0 Shari Lowen Vice-President 20 0 0 0 Barbara Sanchez-Salazar Secretary 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 OR Russ Kohl 179 Cheese Spring Road Wilton CT 06897 2037618643 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 8044 13521 1687 80962 168924 273138 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8044 13521 1687 80962 168924 273138 273138 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8044 13521 1687 80962 168924 273138 1 1 0 0 X Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 10 Grants and Similar Amounts: Susan G. Komen(9433); Row5kOarBust(936); Community Cancer Organizations(2793); Cancer Survivor Programs in Community Rowing Clubs(63,650); Seattle Row for the Cure(76,555). Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 General office expenses. Office supplies (187); Marketing materials(200); Regatta Central Fee(10); Registrations and Filings(150); Insurance(380); Classy-Web based fundraising platform(3946); Web development(231); Zoom conferencing(150); Web expenses(31); Trademark filings(1420); Travel reimbursement(557); Meal reimbursements(381); Mercer event(602); San Diego event(1983); Seattle event(55); Telecommunications conferencing(696); Uniforms(107). Since its inception, Rowing Cares (formerly d/b/a Row for the Cure) utilized the accounting services of a CPA Board member who was connected to our founder. In the last phase of her multiple decades long tenure two things happened, (i) our Treasurer was the victim of an email scam and sent around $4,000 to a scam artist who impersonated the then new and still current President, and (ii) our organization morphed from a Susan G Komen arm into a stand alone entity that broadened its scope from fundraising solely for Susan G Komen into a organization that benefitted patients and survivors across the country of primarily breast cancer issues. When we became a separate entity we misapplied the gross receipts test and timely filed 990s that miscounted the amount of our gross receipts and therefore filed the wrong 990 forms. Prior to discovering this mistake, our Treasurer had resigned from her position, without a successor treasurer in place, out of a sense of honor for the fraud that occurred on her watch. It was not until the state of Oregon reached out to Rowing Cares that we understood the 990s had been filed under the wrong forms. Unfortunately, by that time we had a rudderless situation trying to find a replacement treasurer as understandably all candidates wanted the 990 issue cleared before coming aboard. We had similar issues with finding a CPA or bookkeeper to take over the filing issues. In an effort to rectify the situation, and continue growing our all volunteer organization, the Secretary of the organization tried to work with the ex-Treasurer but the progress was a snail's pace; two individuals across the continent from each other, each with Covid medical issues, the books for Rowing Cares were kept on an accounting system we did not own, and which the ex-Treasurer no longer maintained. It took a long time to purchase the accounting software, request access to stored records, transfer the hard data to our online software, make sense of the data, organize the data in a way the ex-Treasurer never envisioned (since she never filed a full 990 or 990 EZ) and find a way to make sense of what we had in order to fill out the forms. The President of Rowing Cares signed the late 990 on January 9, 2025.