Ventura County Sportfishing Club

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
421532939
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Moorpark, CA, USA
Rating
39
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fishing, Hunting

Reported finances

Revenue
$51,877
Expenses
$47,496
Assets
$16,839

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Arthur Hernandez (President)
  • John White (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Arthur Hernandez (President)
  • Richard Lane (Treasurer)
  • Richard Groeber (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

Ventura County Bluewater Sportfishing Club is a 501c4 social welfare organization formed to promote community service and public benefit through recreational fishing education safety awareness and community-based activities. Our primary charitable community program is an annual ocean sportfishing trip organized in partnership with local foster-care organizations. The club raises funds through voluntary contributions and state-registered raffles and uses the proceeds to pay charter and related trip costs so foster youth and their chaperones can participate at no cost. The club is operated by volunteers and also conducts member activities that support community engagement and help fund our program work.

What it reported doing in 2025

Ventura County Bluewater Sportfishing Clubs primary community service program is an annual ocean sportfishing trip for Ventura County foster youth coordinated with local foster-care organizations. The program provides a safe supervised day on the ocean at no cost to the youth or chaperones. Participants receive hands-on instruction in basic fishing techniques boating and ocean safety and responsible marine stewardship. The trip also includes guided observation of local marine life and the Channel Islands providing an educational outdoor experience that many participants would not otherwise have. Outcomes are measured by the number of foster youth served and the completion of the annual trip.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 79% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 9
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 8.7%; rating input score 9
  • Program expense ratio: 9.5%; rating input score 9

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.4%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 8.7% of revenue deployed · 9.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • 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 9/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.