Vintage Flyers Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 942628846
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Napa, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4152461215
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $66,237
- Expenses
- $78,128
- Assets
- $304,178
- Liabilities
- $1,193
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ali Behravesh (President)
People named in this filing
- Ali Behravesh (President)
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
To provide social and recreational opportunities for its members through the ownership, maintenance, and operation of two aircraft (1972 Cessna 172M and Piper PA-28-180 Archer) for personal flying, training, and related aviation activities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Primary program service: Vintage Flyers, Inc. is a member-owned 501(c)(7) social and recreational flying club. Its sole program service is to provide its approximately 20 members with safe, affordable, and convenient access to two club-owned aircraft (1972 Cessna 172M N20858 and Piper PA-28-180 Archer N2565U) for personal flying, training, proficiency, and recreational purposes. During 2025 the club: 1) Maintained both aircraft in full FAA airworthy condition, including all required inspections, airframe and engine maintenance, and major repairs (both engines are at or beyond TBO). 2) Provided members with aircraft scheduling, flight-hour billing, and insurance coverage. 3) Managed hangar facilities, fuel, property taxes, and all operational expenses so members could fly at cost. 4) Facilitated social and recreational aviation activities exclusively for members and their guests. All activities are funded by member dues, flight-hour charges, and minor assessments. No services are provided to the general public.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -18%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.89; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $78K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.