Dayton Bear Lake Outing Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 316049788
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Valparaiso, IN, USA
- Phone
- 2192416251
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $82,349
- Expenses
- $54,803
- Assets
- $241,336
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TIM BELL (PRESIDENT)
- RICK O'HARE (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- TIM BELL (PRESIDENT)
- RICK O'HARE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JAMES HOLMEN (SECRETARY)
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
The dayton bear lake outing club is an organiztion whose primary purpose is to preserve lake shore water frontage from future development that would not be condusive to the natural nature of the lakeshore area keeping the natural nature of the shoreline of bear lake in its current state and keeping developers from changing the shoreline this has been their mission since the inceptsion of the dayton bear lake outing club from the beginning of the club done their best to ensure that their main mission is preservation they wish to keep their mission of lakeshore preservation going for future generations and members of their association and keeping future developments unable to proceed with their devopments and keeping the shoreline in its current natural state in keeping with the surrounding area and northern michigans beautiful scenery and naturalist areas efiling this return is required and our gosystems is requiring a longer explanation of the primary purpose of dayton bear lake outing
What it reported doing in 2025
Preserve lakeshore frontage
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 63% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 33.5%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.4; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.