Citation Jet Pilots Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263802333
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Orlando, FL, USA
- Phone
- 4077204900
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,784,532
- Expenses
- $2,566,488
- Assets
- $3,285,316
- Liabilities
- $50,298
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBERTO BALZANO (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- ROBERTO BALZANO (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $499,323 total reported compensation
- ELIZABETH NIXON (SPECIAL PROJECT MGR): $121,777 total reported compensation
- DAVID MORISEY (DIRECTOR OF SAFETY (FROM APR)): $100,812 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. To serve as a forum for owners and pilots of all series of citation and premier jets to exchange information, ideas, and knowledge regarding the safe, pleasurable, proper and cost effective use, pilotage, operation and maintenance of the aircraft. B. To promote safety and other standards of use, pilotage, operation, and maintenance of the aircraft by the members. C. To foster educational and developmental opportunities for members who are pilots or owners of the aircraft, enhancing the necessary competencies of the members with respect to the use, pilotage, operation, and maintenance of the aircraft d. To serve as a clearinghouse of information and research pertinent to the use, pilotage, operation, and maintenance of the aircraft e. To provide recreational and social opportunities among the members in connection with, and thereby supporting, the safe and pleasurable use.
What it reported doing in 2025
Citation jet pilots maintains a web site to serve as a forum for owners and pilots of all series of citation and premier jets to exchange information, ideas, and knowledge regarding the safe, pleasurable, proper and cost effective use, pilotage, operation, and maintenance of the aircraft
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 71% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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: 66
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.8%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.1%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $499K · 19 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $606K 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: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.