Desert Flying Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472021773
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Boulder City, NV, USA
- Phone
- 7029907656
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $382,205
- Expenses
- $449,186
- Assets
- $176,293
- Liabilities
- $216,932
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRETT WHITTCARE (PRESIDENT/EXEC. DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- GARY KAUFFMAN - CHIEF (FLIGHT/SAFETY OFFICER): $24,248 total reported compensation
- CAIMON SALWAY (DIRECTOR): $20,227 total reported compensation
- JAN GREENBURG (DIRECTOR): $1,025 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To create an aviation community where people can make lasting friendships, fly more economically, & become safer pilots.
What it reported doing in 2024
Social events and safety training - we provide monthly safety meetings free of charge to the members and developed internal safety program in conjunction with the faa safety team. A monthly saftery meeting is held for all aviation members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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: 90
- Accountability: 46
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 0
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: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -17.5%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.23; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.1%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -49.5% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $24K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.