Crooked Lake Sailors Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
800623079
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Oden, MI, USA
Phone
8582437014
Rating
55
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Swimming & Other Water Recreation

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$139,740
Expenses
$86,393
Assets
$174,096
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Todd McKinney (Board Chair)
  • Steve Cash (Treasurer)
  • Dan Rupp (Board Member)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Crooked Lake Sailors provides sailing classes and private lessons for area youth and adults each summer, utilizing the facilities of the Crooked Lake Yacht Club. It is funded primarily by donations and student tuition.

What it reported doing in 2025

Conducted morning and afternoon sailing and water safety classes for area youth Monday through Friday for six weeks during the summer. Conducted evening sailing classes for adults twice weekly for four weeks in late June and July. The number of individuals, (primarily youths) averages over 100 students each year. While our student tuition pricing is generally the lowest among other sailing schools in our area, we award tuition discounts through scholarships to many students to enable them to afford to attend our sailing classes. We have no paid employees other than our instructors, who are high school and college-aged young people trained in sailing instruction and boating safety.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 81% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 17
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 81
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 13.6%; rating input score 14
  • Program expense ratio: 21.9%; rating input score 22

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 38.2%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.02; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 13.6% of revenue deployed · 21.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $19K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 14/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 22/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.