Wings Over Winyah Flying Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862421296
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Georgetown, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8433400035
- Rating
- 38
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recreational l Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $92,656
- Expenses
- $107,633
- Assets
- $293,200
- Liabilities
- $162,496
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Walter McElveen (Director)
- Michael Godley (Director)
- Robert Carson (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide members an opportunity for general aviation flying, advocacy, education and philanthropy.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our members logged approximately 400 flight hours enabling them to maintain required FAA currency, participate in the FAA Wings Safety training program, and obtain advanced ratings. We conduct quarterly safety seminars and training on maintenance items, such as oil changes, that can be legally accomplished without the involvement of certified aviation airframe and power plant personnel.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.72; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.55; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -71.2% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.