Truckee-Tahoe Soaring Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
472856204
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Truckee, CA, USA
Phone
5305876702
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Amateur Sports

Reported finances

Revenue
$164,622
Expenses
$195,977
Assets
$90,543
Liabilities
$238,022

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Ron Hess (President)
  • Kurt Thams (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Ron Hess (President)
  • Steve Wertheimer (Treasurer)
  • Mike Mayo (Secretary)

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 purpose of the organization is to advance the science, art, and safey of soaring flight in the Northern California and Nevada region by educating individuals, and promoting awareness among individuals.... the organization will train aspiring pilots primarily youth in soaring flightprovide a lauch facility for glinder pilots introdice the general public to soaring flight and promote safety

What it reported doing in 2025

The purpose of the organization is to advance the science, art, and safety of soaring flight in the northern California and Nevada region by educating and promoting awareness. The organization will train aspiring pilots, primarily youth, in soaring flight and provide a launch facility for glider pilots. The organization will also introduce the general public to soaring flight and promote safety

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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: 82
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -19%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.63; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -11.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.