Sandhill Soaring Club Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262580629
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Brighton, MI, USA
- Phone
- 5178030697
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recreational l Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $104,375
- Expenses
- $123,651
- Assets
- $334,266
- Liabilities
- $76,110
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Reid Baldwin (President)
- Tyler Tyson (Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- Reid Baldwin (President)
- Tyler Tyson (Vice-President)
- Grant Whittlesey (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Education in the sport of soaring to members and the public
What it reported doing in 2024
The club did not hold its annual glider ground school, a ground school course open to the public; the 13 week courseprovides 39 hours of instruction in general aviation and covered all topics required to prepare for the FAA written exam for candidates seeking PPG or higher ratings. In the previous year 14 students and several members participated.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 61% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 42.3%; rating input score 42
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -18.5%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.7; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 48% of revenue deployed · 42.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $52K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.