Eaa Chapter 439
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201516976
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Quinnesec, MI, USA
- Phone
- 9064586989
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Adult, Continuing Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $44,377
- Expenses
- $21,156
- Assets
- $236,574
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- THOMAS SULLIVAN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- THOMAS SULLIVAN (PRESIDENT)
- JAMES RIVERSIDE (EXECUTIVE VP)
- MIKE YOUNGS (VP)
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
Promote, encourage and facilitate an atmosphere where all are welcome to join-in and become a part of recreational aviation. Promote, encourage and facilitate an environment that fosters safety and high standards in the design, construction, restoration, and operation of all types of recreational aircraft. Promote, encourage and facilitate recreational activities that provide educational opportunities. Promote a positive, productive, and cooperative relationship between the chapter and those government agencies and private enterprises that provide aviation services and facilities to the benefit of the chapter. Promote and encourage membership in the eaa.
What it reported doing in 2025
Promote, encourage and facilitate an atmosphere where all are welcome to join-in and become a part of recreational aviation. Promote, encourage anf facilitate an environmnet that fosters safety and high standards in the design, construction, restoration, and operation of all types of recreational aircraft. Promote, encourage, and facilitate recreational activities that provide educational opportunities. Promote a positive, productive, and cooperative relationship between the chapter and those government agencies and private enterprises that provide aviation services and facilities to the benefit of the chapter. Promote and encourage membership in the eaa.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.6%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 95.7%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 52.3%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 11.18; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 45.6% of revenue deployed · 95.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $20K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.