Whalers Cove Yacht Club

EIN: 11-2015841 · Cold Spring Harbor, NY · 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.

$627,663

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.

$538,137

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

$845,415

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

$458,562

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

Total compensation, benefits & payroll taxes (Part IX)

TY2025

$200,240

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

~$25,000 per employee average across 8W-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

$8,884

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 $209,124.

Accounting$3,250
Other$5,634

Functional Expense Allocation (Part IX)

TY2025

$538,137total functional expenses

87.8%

Program services

$472,504

12.2%

Management & general

$65,633

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$461,391$425,912$35,479$149,316
TY20212020–2021990N/AN/AN/A
TY20212020–2021990$484,596$433,278$51,318$200,634
TY20222022+990N/AN/AN/A
TY20222022+990$607,207$497,328$109,879$310,513
TY20232022+990N/AN/AN/A
TY20232022+990$522,522$509,390$13,132$323,645
TY20242022+990N/AN/AN/A
TY20242022+990$585,613$540,222$45,391$369,036
TY20252022+990$627,663$538,137$89,526$458,562

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
11aBOAT SLIP RENTAL$67,750
12Total revenue$627,663
2aELECTRIC SURCHARGE$20,500
2bMEMBERSHIP DUES$497,245
2cSURCHARGE$35,000
2fTotal program service revenue$552,745
3Investment income$7,168

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$770,849$845,415
26Total liabilities$401,813$386,853
33Total net assets or fund balances$369,036$458,562

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): 0

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
Allen SaundersSecretary0Volunteer
Paul PaternosterTreasurer0Volunteer
Bob FoxJr Fleet Captn0Volunteer
Paul MazzeiSr Fleet Captn0Volunteer
John CoyleVICE COMMODORE0Volunteer
Jim CelestinoCommodore0Volunteer
Bob BastaREAR COMMODORE0Volunteer
Bob FoxPAST COMMODORE0Volunteer

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

6

Independent Members

6

Total Employees

8

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, Part VI, Section A, Line 7a

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SHALL CONSIST OF 6 MEMBERS (NOT INCL REAR AND PAST COMMODORES) TO BE ELECTED FOR A TERM OF TWO YEARS BY A MAJORITY HE GENERAL MEMBERSHIP.

Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 7b

TEN MEMBERS SHALL CONSTITUTE A QUORUM AT ANY MEETING OF THE GENERAL MEMBERSHIP.

Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b

FORM 990 IS REVIEWED BY THE BOARD MEMBERS AND SIGNED BEFORE FILING.

Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19

ALL DOCUMENTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW AT THE ORGANIZATION'S LOCATION, UPON REQUEST.

Mission

TO PROMOTE SOCIABILITY, GOOD WILL, SAFE BOATING AND A CLEAN ENVIRONMENT, WHILE SERVING THE BOATING INTERESTS OF ITS MEMBERS

As stated in the organization's 990 filing.

IRS Source Filings

TY2025 (990)TY2024 (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.

Moderate

Capacity squeeze

Revenue grew 20% over two years (TY2023–TY2025) while inflation-adjusted labor costs grew less than 5% and headcount held steady — the organization is doing significantly more with the same team.

Why it matters: Sustained capacity squeeze can signal volunteer or staff burnout, deferred investment in people, or a gradual outsourcing of work to contractors not visible in Part IX.

Operator question: Did volunteers absorb the additional workload, or did program scope and service hours actually grow proportionally?

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 (4 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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