WICKFORD YACHT CLUB

EIN: 05-0386637 · NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI · Data spans: TY2020–TY2025

Most recent filing: Tax Year 2025.

Sailing's public record, made legible. All numbers come directly from this organization's own sworn 990 filing. Patterns are computed from years of filings — not assessments or judgments.

Read trends in context: compare like with like, note the filing year, and treat major disruptions (like 2020–2021) as discontinuities rather than a continuous baseline.

Missing or N/A does not always mean absent. It can mean the item was not disclosed on that form, not collected on that filing type, or not available for that year.

Accrual basisNo audit disclosedPart XII · TY2025
Total Revenueℹ️Form 990, Part VIII — Statement of Revenue. Includes contributions, grants, member dues, program service revenue, and investment income. Does NOT include borrowed funds or asset sales proceeds.

$266,259

Total Expensesℹ️Form 990, Part IX (full 990) or Part I Line 17 (990-EZ) — Total functional expenses. Includes program service expenses, management and general, and fundraising. The gap between revenue and expenses is the operating surplus or deficit for the year.

$254,317

Total Assetsℹ️Form 990, Part X — Balance Sheet, end of year. Includes cash, receivables, investments, land, buildings, and equipment.

$805,662

Net Assetsℹ️Form 990, Part X — Total assets minus total liabilities. When positive, assets exceed liabilities; when negative, liabilities exceed assets. Also called 'fund balance.'

$805,662

1 W-2 employees reported (Form W-3, most recent filing — contractors and volunteers excluded) · TY2025 · 990

Total compensation, benefits & payroll taxes (Part IX)

TY2025

$20,752

Full cost to employ everyone — wages + employer benefits + payroll taxes. Not officer pay alone.

~$21,000 per employee average across 1W-2 employees; includes benefits & payroll taxes; part-time and seasonal staff counted at full weight.

Named officers/key employees (Part VII‑A) show reportable compensation only and are already included in the Part IX total above. They are not additive.

Professional & consulting fees (Part IX, line 11)

TY2025

$1,292

Payments to outside firms and independent contractors — not included in the Part IX labor total above. Combined with the labor total, full people cost is $22,044.

Functional Expense Allocation (Part IX)

TY2025

$254,317total functional expenses

94.4%

Program services

$240,133

5.6%

Management & general

$14,184

0.0%

Fundraising

$0

Source: Form 990, Part IX, line 25. Shows how this organization allocated total expenses across program services, management and general, and fundraising for this filing year.

Historical Trends

Revenue vs. Expenses

Net Revenue / Operating Margin

Net Assets

Revenue Trend

Tax YearPeriodFormRevenueExpensesNet RevenueNet Assets
TY20202020–2021990N/AN/AN/A
TY20202020–2021990$220,597$194,485$26,112$416,321
TY20212020–2021990N/AN/AN/A
TY20212020–2021990$281,289$209,560$71,729$524,954
TY20222022+990N/AN/AN/A
TY20222022+990$288,293$204,232$84,061$609,015
TY20232022+990N/AN/AN/A
TY20232022+990$393,032$260,854$132,178$743,432
TY20242022+990$306,736$256,480$50,256$793,045
TY20252022+990$266,259$254,317$11,942$805,662

Revenue trend is a filing-history view. It helps you compare operating periods, not infer the club's live condition today.

Revenue Breakdown (Part VIII — most recent year)

Form 990, Part VIII — Statement of Revenue. Includes, but is not limited to: Line 1 = contributions and grants (including member dues reported as contributions). Lines 2a–2f = program service revenue (activities that directly further the organization's exempt purpose). Line 3 = investment income. The specific mix varies by organization type. Source: the organization's own sworn filing.

LineDescriptionAmount
11aINSURANCE REFUND$1,349
11bFACILITIES CHARGE$900
11cMERCHANDISE SALES$781
12Total revenue$266,259
1fAll other contributions, gifts, grants$53
1hTotal contributions and grants$53
2aMEMBERSHIP DUES$182,738
2bSOCIAL INCOME$33,002
2cMOORING INCOME$15,382
2dWICKFORD REGATTA$7,071
2eCRUISE INCOME$4,059
2fTotal program service revenue$248,476
3Investment income$12,975
6cNet rental income or (loss)$1,725

Most revenue is reported in a single category this year. That can be normal for some org types; see the source filing for detail.

Balance Sheet (Part X)

TY2025
LineDescriptionBOYEOY
16Total assets$793,045$805,662
26Total liabilities$0$0
33Total net assets or fund balances$793,045$805,662

Source: Form 990, Part X, Balance Sheet.

Officers & Key Staff (Part VII)

How to read this section

This is not a full staff directory. It is the subset of people the organization had to disclose in Form 990, Part VII (the officer, director, trustee, key employee, and highest-compensated employee section of the filing). Why this matters: a missing name does not mean a person was not employed or involved.

Total Volunteer Board Hours/Week (Selected Year): 7

Hours per week are self-reported by each officer on Form 990, Part VII. They are not verified.

Officers and directors as reported on Form 990, Part VII. These are typically unpaid, elected positions. If an officer receives compensation, it will appear in the Paid Staff tab.

Operationally, this section is most useful for understanding disclosed leadership structure, compensation visibility, and board labor — not for reconstructing the full staffing model of a club.

NameTitleHours/WeekStatus
SUZANNE THOMSCOMMODORE1Volunteer
MICHAEL TAMMAROREAR CAPTAIN1Volunteer
BEN RICETREASURER1Volunteer
SIOBHAN O'BARAFLEET CAPTAI1Volunteer
DAVID LINQUISTPAST COMMODO1Volunteer
JERI LEVESQUEVICE COMMODO1Volunteer
WINNIE HAGANSECRETARY1Volunteer

Programs (Part III — most recent year)

Form 990, Part III — Statement of Program Service Accomplishments. These are the activities that directly further the organization's exempt purpose. Expenses, grants, and revenue are as reported in the organization's own sworn filing.

TO HOST AN ANNUAL REGATTA AT THE YACHT CLUB.

TO HOST WEEKLY (WEDNESDAY) NIGHT RACES

LASER MASTERS REGATTA AND OTHER INCOME ASSOCIATED WITH BOATING EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES

Governance & Transparency Signals

The IRS Form 990 is a sworn disclosure document — not just a tax return. Beyond financials, it captures governance policies, compensation practices, and relationships between insiders and the organization. Every category below comes directly from that filing. When a field is blank, it is often because this form type doesn’t require it, or the org doesn’t meet the threshold that triggers disclosure. That context is itself worth knowing.

Conflict of Interest Policy

Form 990, Part VI — Line 12a

No

No conflict of interest policy reported. This question is part of Form 990’s Part VI governance disclosures. A written policy documents how the organization identifies and manages situations where a board member, officer, or key employee has a financial interest in a decision — and how those individuals step back from related votes. The IRS does not legally require this policy. Many volunteer-run clubs manage these situations through informal norms rather than written procedure; formal documentation becomes more common as organizations grow in size and operating complexity.

Whistleblower Protection Policy

Form 990, Part VI — Line 13

No

No whistleblower protection policy reported. Without a documented process, a staff member or volunteer who notices irregular transactions has no protected channel to report it — and no written assurance they won’t face consequences for raising the issue. The IRS added this question in 2008 following Sarbanes-Oxley. Absence does not imply wrongdoing; many small clubs haven’t formalized this in writing even when informal norms are healthy.

Officer & Key Employee Compensation (Part VII)

Form 990, Part VII — Named individuals with reportable compensation

No individual compensation reported for this organization in the most recent filing.

This is the norm for volunteer-run sailing clubs. Part VII still exists in the filing — it simply shows $0 compensation for all listed officers and directors, meaning this club is led entirely by unpaid volunteers. When you see compensation appear here in other organizations, it marks a meaningful transition: the club has grown to the point where professional management was hired. The largest clubs in this corpus — those above $3M in revenue — are the most likely to have paid executive staff.

Independent Compensation Consultant

Schedule J, Part I — Organizations filing when comp exceeds $150K

Schedule J not required for this organization.

Schedule J is only filed when at least one individual in Part VII received more than $150,000 in total compensation. This organization doesn’t meet that threshold, so this schedule is not required. Among the 35.7% of organizations in this corpus that do file Schedule J, 35.7% used an independent compensation consultant. When Schedule J IS required, this question asks whether the board hired an outside firm — unconnected to the organization — to benchmark executive pay against market rates. It reduces the risk that a board approves whatever the ED requests rather than what comparable organizations actually pay.

Equity-Based Compensation

Schedule J, Part II — Per-person compensation detail

Schedule J not required for this organization.

Related-Party Transactions (Schedule L)

Schedule L — Transactions with Interested Persons (officers, directors, their families, controlled entities)

Schedule L requires disclosure of loans, grants, and business transactions between the organization and its own insiders — board members, officers, key employees, and their family members or entities they control. Nonprofits are not prohibited from transacting with insiders, but they must disclose it, follow fair-market-value standards, and document that the transaction benefited the organization, not just the insider. These disclosures exist because self-dealing is the most direct way nonprofit assets can flow to those in control.

No related-party transactions found in our data for this organization. Schedule L is only required when transactions occur — absence means none were reported, not necessarily that none occurred.

Voting Board Members

7

Independent Members

7

Total Employees

1

Schedule O — Supplemental Information (most recent year)

Organizations use Schedule O to provide additional explanation for answers given on the main 990 form. These are direct excerpts from the filed document.

FORM 990, PAGE 2, PART III, LINE 4D

LASER MASTERS REGATTA AND OTHER INCOME ASSOCIATED WITH BOATING EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES

FORM 990, PAGE 6, PART VI, LINE 6

MEMBERS

FORM 990, PAGE 6, PART VI, LINE 7A

MEMBERS

FORM 990, PAGE 6, PART VI, LINE 11B

NO REVIEW WAS OR WILL BE CONDUCTED.

FORM 990, PAGE 6, PART VI, LINE 12C

THE ORGANIZATION REVIEWS NEW DIRECTORS AND NEW OFFICERS FOR ANY CONFLICTS OF INTEREST AND ALSO ANNUALLY MONITORS COMPLIANCE WITH CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY FOR EXISTING DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

Mission

THE PURPOSE OF THE WICKFORD YACHT CLUB IS TO FOSTER THE SPORT OF YACHTING AND TO PROVIDE SUITABLE FACILITIES AND ACTIVITIES FOR ITS MEMBERS.

As stated in the organization's 990 filing.

IRS Source Filings

TY2025 (990)TY2024 (990)TY2023 (990)TY2023 (990)TY2022 (990)TY2022 (990)TY2021 (990)TY2021 (990)TY2020 (990)TY2020 (990)

Source filings are IRS e-file records in XML (Extensible Markup Language) format — a structured data standard used by the IRS for electronic filing. If you open one of these links, it will look like code. That's not an error — that's what XML looks like. Harbor Commons processes this raw XML and presents the structured, readable view you see above.

Why this matters: the XML is the receipt. Harbor Commons is the reading layer on top of that receipt. If you ever need to verify a number, wording choice, or disclosure, the source filing is where to check.

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Capacity Signals

Auto-detected patterns from this organization's own IRS filing history. Signals are relative to this org's trend only — not peer comparisons, not judgments.

Private clubs are naturally labor-heavy. Always interpret signals against this organization's own context before drawing conclusions.

Notable

Revenue per employee rose sharply

Revenue per employee grew 103% over two years (TY2023–TY2025), well above typical inflation. This can reflect genuine revenue growth, reduced staffing relative to revenue, or a one-time revenue event.

Why it matters: High revenue per employee can reflect operational efficiency — or understaffing. The program model and revenue mix should be checked before drawing conclusions.

Operator question: Did the revenue base change (new programs, dues increase, capital campaign receipt), or did staffing fall behind revenue growth?

Phase 2 signals (contractor substitution, benefits share changes) require Part IX line-level data and are not yet available. All computations use IRS-filed data only; no external benchmarks or CPI adjustments beyond a 3% per year inflation proxy.

📡 Filing Signals (6 total)

Trends and shifts computed from this organization's own public filings across all available years. Signals highlight where numbers changed — not whether those changes are good or bad. Only people with inside knowledge of this organization can interpret what these signals mean.

Signals describe filing history, not the club's live operating state. The newest filing may still lag current reality by many months.

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