EIN: 11-3749156 · Watertown, MA · Data spans: TY2020–TY2024
Most recent filing: Tax Year 2024.
A more recent filing may not yet be published.
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.
$284,237
$284,439
$493,922
$242,634
3 W-2 employees reported (Form W-3, most recent filing — contractors and volunteers excluded) · TY2024 · 990
Total compensation, benefits & payroll taxes (Part IX)
TY2024$22,958
Full cost to employ everyone — wages + employer benefits + payroll taxes. Not officer pay alone.
~$8,000 per employee ⓘ — average across 3W-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)
TY2024$16,920
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 $39,878.
Functional Expense Allocation (Part IX)
TY2024$284,439total functional expenses
Source: Form 990, Part IX, line 25. Functional allocation percentages are not itemized in this filing data for the selected year.
Historical Trends
Revenue vs. Expenses
Net Revenue / Operating Margin
Net Assets
Financial Health Snapshot
Derived from IRS 990 filings. Figures are as reported — they reflect a single point in time and should be read alongside the full filing history and program context above. No benchmark is a verdict.
Operating Margin
Net revenue as a share of total revenue. Positive = surplus; negative = deficit.
Sector context: sailing organizations typically run thin margins by design. A small surplus signals structural balance; a deficit is not automatically a warning without multi-year trend context.
Cash reserve (months)
Cash and short-term investments divided by average monthly expense.
A common practitioner benchmark: 3–6 months of unrestricted reserves provides a buffer for seasonal revenue gaps or unexpected costs. This figure is not a compliance threshold.
Revenue Change (YoY)
Change in total revenue from TY2023 to TY2024.
A single year of revenue change is a data point, not a trend. See the historical trends above for multi-year pattern context.
Revenue Trend
| Tax Year | Period | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net Revenue | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TY2020 | 2020–2021 | 990 | $246,697 | $236,786 | $9,911 | $136,174 |
| TY2021 | 2020–2021 | 990 | $276,583 | $247,944 | $28,639 | $217,902 |
| TY2022 | 2022+ | 990 | $243,332 | $212,463 | $30,869 | $266,502 |
| TY2023 | 2022+ | 990 | $260,249 | $252,336 | $7,913 | $277,523 |
| TY2024 | 2022+ | 990 | $284,237 | $284,439 | -$202 | $242,634 |
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.
| Line | Description | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | Total revenue | $284,237 |
| 1b | Membership dues | $121,437 |
| 1h | Total contributions and grants | $121,437 |
| 2a | Boat income | $96,373 |
| 2b | Entertainment income | $18,262 |
| 2c | Service Income | $4,931 |
| 2d | Miscelaneous Income | $31,739 |
| 2f | Total program service revenue | $151,305 |
| 3 | Investment income | $11,495 |
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)
TY2024| Line | Description | BOY | EOY |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | Total assets | $525,533 | $493,922 |
| 26 | Total liabilities | $248,010 | $251,288 |
| 33 | Total net assets or fund balances | $277,523 | $242,634 |
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): 64
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.
| Name | Title | Hours/Week | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carlos S Ruperti | Commodore | 10 | Volunteer |
| Paul V Dubiel Jr | Vice Commodore | 4 | Volunteer |
| Ralph B Levy | Secretary | 10 | Volunteer |
| Thomas Lynch | Treasurer | 10 | Volunteer |
| Craig Tanny | Director | 4 | Volunteer |
| Steven J Lydon | Director | 4 | Volunteer |
| Kerry Harthan | Director | 4 | Volunteer |
| Milton Shull | Director | 4 | Volunteer |
| Howard Hecht | Rear Commodore | 10 | Volunteer |
| Frederick Heim Jr | Director | 4 | Volunteer |
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.
Entertainment, Administration, Special Projects
Boat Expenses
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 written conflict of interest policy was reported on the filing. This means Part VI does not document a formal recusal process in this return. The IRS does not require a policy in every case, but this line is included so readers can see whether the filing itself records one.
Whistleblower Protection Policy
Form 990, Part VI — Line 13
No whistleblower protection policy reported. The IRS added this question in 2008 following Sarbanes-Oxley. Absence does not imply wrongdoing; many smaller organizations have not formalized this in writing.
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.
Most volunteer-run sailing clubs report $0 officer compensation. Part VII still exists in the filing — it lists officers and directors with $0 reportable compensation, meaning this club is led by unpaid volunteers. When compensation appears in other filings, it marks a transition: the organization has grown to the point where professional management was engaged.
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 file Schedule J, that same percentage used an independent compensation consultant to benchmark executive pay against market rates.
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
10
Independent Members
10
Total Employees
3
Total Volunteers
120
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 6
The Watertown Yacht Club is a membership organization with approximately 120 dues paying members. There are no stockholders
Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 7a
The entire membership votes on election of officers on a yearly basis
Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 7b
The general membership can override the decisions of the board of directors with a 2/3 majority
Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b
On May 1 2025 the Board of directors reviewed the data on the 2024 Form 990 compared with the Treasurer's annual report and found them to be in agreement. They then voted to approve the filing of the Form 990
Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19
No other documents are available to the public
Mission
The Watertown Yacht Club (WYC) is a social organization of boaters whose mission is to promote boating safety among adults and minors as well as to provide facilities for keeping boats summer and winter and to support the social advancement and entertainment of its members.
As stated in the organization's 990 filing.
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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.
Labor's share of expenses declined over two years
Labor costs as a share of total expenses fell 10 percentage points over two years — from 18% (TY2022) to 8% (TY2024).
Why it matters: A gradual structural shift in cost mix — even if intentional — can reflect erosion of the org's staffing model or increasing reliance on outside labor.
Operator question: Was this shift intentional strategy, or did it happen by constraint?
Expenses grew faster than labor
Total expenses rose 13% (TY2023→TY2024) while labor costs grew less than 2%. The gap is being filled by non-labor spending — contractors, facilities, insurance, or other professional services.
Why it matters: When expense growth consistently outpaces labor growth, the organization may be substituting staff with outside contractors — or absorbing rising fixed costs without expanding its team.
Operator question: Which non-labor line items drove the increase: outside contractors (Part IX line 11), occupancy, or insurance?
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.
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