Potomac Mountain Club Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 413201816
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Chevy Chase, MD, USA
- Phone
- 7184907010
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Recreational l Clubs
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
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- Alexander Ovodenko (Chair)
- Sergei Nekhai (Vice Chair)
- Allan Wilson (Treasurer)
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
Prior to 12/18/2025, the activities now conducted by Potomac Mountain Club, Inc., were carried out informally as the Mountaineering Section of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (PATC), a nonprofit organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. PATC executed an asset transfer to Potomac Mountain Club, Inc., on 3/6/2026, before which all finances were handled by PATC. Potomac Mountain Club, Inc., has 4 primary categories of activities: 1) local day-long events climbing at nearby rock formations, 2) overnight multiday excursions for climbing and other mountaineering activities depending on the season, 3) participation in community interest events, and 4) limited social events for members. These activities further our primary exempt purposes by enabling members to widely commingle with each other, develop close climbing relationships, engage other climbing organizations in the area, and get exposure to mountaineering activities, in furtherance of club goals.
What it reported doing in 2025
Overnight Multi-day Excursions: These events are typically smaller specialized excursions to rock formations or mountains 3 to 12 hours from Washington DC, including Seneca Rocks, WV, or the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Excursions can range from 3 to 7 days. These events are organized by club members for club members. Depending on the season and location, these excursions can range from multi-day advanced rock climbing to mentoring on winter alpine skills. Members self-fund their expenses. In some cases, the club may centrally book campsites or group lodging that members reimburse the club for their portion of the expense. When members provide an exceptional service for the club, where the club wishes to ensure consistent access to skills, the club reimburses expenses of those club members (e.g. transportation costs of expert members donating their time to mentor and instruct other members on particular skills, usually no more than $1,500 for all leading club members). A significant portion of the club's gear locker is dedicated to enabling members to take on these excursions (e.g. alpine boots, avalanche transponders, heavy duty winter tents, etc.) and to develop mountaineering skills where they may not already have the specialized equipment and where access to such equipment would be a barrier to members expanding their technical capabilities before making significant investments themselves. The club historically budgets $1,000 per year for gear replacement. Excursion costs represent 10-15 percent of the club's overall activity and budget. During these excursions, members form close climbing relationships with other members, often putting each other's life in their hands, while in the pursuit of our core recreational activities of the club.
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: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- 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.