Tampa Bay Soaring Society Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271674966
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Zephyrhills, FL, USA
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $196,914
- Expenses
- $158,310
- Assets
- $317,227
- Liabilities
- $4,160
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bruce Patton (President)
- Randy Morningstar (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Bruce Patton (President)
- Randy Morningstar (Vice President)
- James Zombakis (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
The club enables like-minded people to participate in the sport of soaring and to further the interest in the sport through various activities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Glider launch storage and training services for club members
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.5%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.6%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $158K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.