Short Hills Ski Club
Legal name: Short Hills Ski Club Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 226051181
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Lower Granville, VT, USA
- Phone
- (973) 903-7509
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $264,425
- Expenses
- $244,804
- Assets
- $206,435
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tom Boehm (President)
- Sharon Weston (Vice-president)
- Kerry Coffman (Vice-president)
- Marianne Carlton (Vice-president)
- Rich Wefer (Vice-president)
People named in this filing
- Tom Boehm (President)
- Sharon Weston (Vice-president)
- Carl Mills (Trustee)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Short Hills Ski Club is a members-only ski club for adults based out of northern New Jersey; membership provides access to Vermont’s world-class skiing, breathtaking landscape, and unique culture—along with the club’s exclusive farmhouse-style lodge. “Active in SHSC in the 1970-1980’s, I loved my ski adventures with club friends: the joy of beautiful and challenging slopes, cooperating in maintaining our Lodge, serving as an officer, planning off season trips–from bicycle tours, summer golf and tennis, to an Old Time Fiddlers Contest for a taste of local Vermont. Those days were glorious, fun, filled with healthful exercise and good friends! Now, as an over-80 Honorary Member, I am happy to continue to support SHSC so younger members can enjoy similar skiing and social experiences. I am glad to see how well the club continues to be run! Thank you, current officers, for...
What it reported doing in 2024
Providing affordable accommodation for members and guests to enjoy snow sports and other outdoor activities within Vermont
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 85% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.4%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 107 of 107 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $245K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 10 of 11 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.