Skyline Soaring Club

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
541595125
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Front Royal, VA, USA
Phone
8043877082
Rating
40
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$149,973
Expenses
$145,666
Assets
$141,714
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Stephanie Zilora (President)

People named in this filing

  • Stephanie Zilora (President)
  • Brian Clarke (Secretary)
  • Ralph Vawter (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

Skyline Soaring is a membership club with the purpose of promoting the sport of flying gliders. The club offers education to all level of air enthusiasts from ab initio students to experienced pilots seeking higher ratings. In 2025 the club initiated 1296 flights of which 755 (58%) were instructional. The club operates two tow planes, two two-place gliders for instruction and use by the membership, and three single-place gliders for pilots that have been approved to fly. The club operates from March to December, starting the flying year off with a mandatory safety meeting for all club members.

What it reported doing in 2025

Each year, the club hosts an event called the Week of Training (WOT). The purpose of this event is to give students and new members an intensive training opportunity. The club equipment is relocated to the Petersburg, WV airport (W99). The advantage of this facility is that it is a 5000' runway the allows quick turnarounds of operations. During this week, students can expect six to ten flights a day, meaning 30 to 50 in a week. At the club home base, it would take a student 6 months to gain an equivalent amount of seat time. New students can expect to achieve solo status during this week and more advanced members can achieve passing their PPL-G test (practical test).

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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: 3
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 52
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 2.6%; rating input score 3
  • Program expense ratio: 2.7%; rating input score 3

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2.9%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.97; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -14.4% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 2.6% of revenue deployed · 2.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • 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 3/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.