San Antonio Country Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 740878940
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, US
- Phone
- (210) 824-8865
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Recreational l Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $33,722,189
- Expenses
- $27,275,847
- Assets
- $52,394,297
- Liabilities
- $3,857,080
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EMMY R BALLANTYNE (PRESIDENT)
- FRED J TIPS III (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JONES MARVIN A (GENERAL MANAGER): $504,281 total reported compensation
- NITTOLI JAMES M (GOLF DIRECTOR): $282,041 total reported compensation
- CASTILLO ANDARA EDUARDO (EXECTUIVE CHEF): $249,362 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 provide the best in service, activities and facilities for the comfort and enjoyment of our members, their families and friends.
San Antonio Country Club is a premier family-oriented, full-service private club founded in 1904 to promote golf, tennis, and other innocent outdoor sports. Located in San Antonio, Texas, the club features an 18-hole championship golf course, eight championship clay courts, 6.5 hard courts, a 6,500-square-foot fitness center, and an Olympic-sized outdoor swimming pool heated in winter. The club continues its legacy of treasured traditions, offering dining, social, and recreational activities for members, their families, and friends.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% 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: 66
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 60
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; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.1%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.92; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.5%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: Filed program service accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $504K · 17 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $8.4M reported
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.