Hollister Soaring Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881129793
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8314231344
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Amateur Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Harry Fox (President and Treasurer)
- Ben Hirashima (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Harry Fox (President and Treasurer)
- Philip Lee (Secretary)
- Ben Hirashima (Vice President)
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 purpose of the organization is to advance the science, art and safety of soaring flight in the area of Hollister, California and adjacent regions. The activities of the organization to achieve this purpose will include providing flight instruction and ground instruction in soaring flight, provide an aero-launch facility for soaring flights, introduce the general public to soaring flight through introductory lessons, promote aeronautical safety through individual instruction and group seminars, and sponsor glider flying events to promote the sport of soaring among existing glider pilots and prospective glider pilots. The organization expects to commence its program activities in 2026, after it has undertaken initial fund raising and acquired the necessary aircraft and equipment.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization expects to commence its program activities in 2026, after it has undertaken initial fund raising and acquired the necessary aircraft and equipment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
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: 55
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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 — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.