Upper 15 Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 141794661
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Latham, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5188582036
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $44,765
- Expenses
- $34,799
- Assets
- $194,742
- Liabilities
- $108,706
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Scott Duso (President)
- David Carr (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Scott Duso (President)
- Alex Lunney (Secretary)
- Harry Gochee III (Director)
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
The Organization promotes safe and economical flying by owning and maintaining a single-engine aircraft for member training and flying.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Organization promotes safe and economical flying by owning and maintaining a single-engine aircraft for member training and flying. Member achievements and skills are monitored and members are given opportunities to improve their skills through instruction through approved instructors. Members are also provided with periodic instruction programs on the design and operation of aircraft systems and physics or flight.
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: 68
- 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: 22.3%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.6; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.56; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 60% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 34th 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 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.