White Bear Sailing School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411379110
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2023
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Dellwood, MN, US
- Phone
- (651)900-2505
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $213,864
- Expenses
- $206,121
- Assets
- $93,560
- Liabilities
- $2,668
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
People named in this filing
- TERRI DRESEN (EXECUTIVE OF)
- TOM DRESEN (WATERFRONT &)
- MEGHAN DRIVDAHL (MARKETING &)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
White Bear Sailing School will engage in such activities that foster the knowledge, practice and the art of sailing at White Bear Lake among the youth and their families, both as a current and a lifelong activity.
What it reported doing in 2023
High school racing teams: the white bear sailing school provides instruction, coaching, and equipment for teenagers of the white bear lake area and surrounding school districts, hosting and competing in many sailing regattas throughout the midwest, in both spring and fall seasons.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.1%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 96.6%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.6%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.1% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 17 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 93.1% of revenue deployed · 96.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $199K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.