Hudson Valley Free Flyers Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853028089
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Ellenville, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2129860892
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $22,991
- Expenses
- $2,080
- Assets
- $41,100
- Liabilities
- $1,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WAYNE NECKLES (President)
- BRIAN HERBERT (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- WAYNE NECKLES (President)
- PAUL VOIGHT (Treasurer)
- BRIAN VAN HULL (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To preserve existing flying sites for hang gliding and paragliding; to solicit, collect and raise funds to help offset the medical expenses of injured pilots; to promote safety and education in the hang gilding and paragliding communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 32
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 84
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 7.5%; rating input score 8
- Program expense ratio: 72.2%; rating input score 72
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: 91%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 19.76; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -71.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -132.8% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 7.5% of revenue deployed · 72.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- 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 8/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.