Burlingame Country Club Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200199839
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Sapphire, NC, USA
- Phone
- 8289669200
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,644,245
- Expenses
- $6,775,453
- Assets
- $29,114,963
- Liabilities
- $12,302,293
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GAYLE GILES (PRESIDENT)
- NEIL STARLING (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN GERDTS (GENERAL MANAGER): $256,116 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A non-profit country club and golf course that provides recreational and entertainment activities for its members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 36.3%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.3; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $256K · 10 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.