ROCHESTER YACHT CLUB

EIN: 16-0613575 · ROCHESTER, NY · 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.

Accrual basisCompiled / reviewedAudit committeePart XII · TY2024
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.

$3,379,924

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.

$2,995,671

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

$7,306,545

Net Assetsℹ️Form 990, Part X — Total assets minus total liabilities. Positive = financially solvent. Negative = liabilities exceed assets. Also called 'fund balance.'

$5,354,421

120 W-2 employees reported (Form W-3, most recent filing — contractors and volunteers excluded) · TY2024 · 990

Total compensation, benefits & payroll taxes (Part IX)

TY2024

$1,569,352

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

~$13,000 per employee average across 120 W-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.

Named staff org comp sums to $191,409. The remaining $1,377,943 is unlisted staff labor cost — includes benefits & payroll taxes for all employees, not any one person's salary.

Professional & consulting fees (Part IX, line 11)

TY2024

$17,754

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 $1,587,106.

Legal$1,582
Accounting$15,600
Other$572

Functional Expense Allocation (Part IX)

TY2024

$2,995,671total functional expenses

0.0%

Program services

$0

0.0%

Management & general

$0

0.0%

Fundraising

$0

Source: Form 990, Part IX, line 25. A higher program-service percentage generally indicates more mission-directed spending.

Historical Trends

Revenue vs. Expenses

Net Revenue / Operating Margin

Net Assets

Revenue Trend

Tax YearPeriodFormRevenueExpensesNet RevenueNet Assets
TY20202020–2021990$2,532,857$2,382,574$150,283$2,708,034
TY20212020–2021990$3,238,835$2,364,613$874,222$3,602,193
TY20222022+990$3,296,093$2,472,493$823,600$4,402,944
TY20232022+990$3,065,283$2,553,292$511,991$4,970,168
TY20242022+990$3,379,924$2,995,671$384,253$5,354,421

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
12Total revenue$3,379,924
2aMEMBERSHIP DUES$1,678,841
2bSUMMER MOORING FEES$430,888
2cWINTER STORAGE FEES$141,330
2dJUNIOR SAIL LESSONS$140,466
2eLOCKER & FLOOR RENTAL$73,358
2fTotal program service revenue$2,547,640
3Investment income$158,739

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

Endowment (Schedule D, Part V)

$219,426

Ending endowment balance as of TY2024

Ending balance — 5-year trend

TY2020

$200,355

TY2021

$219,999

TY2022

$194,113

TY2023

$202,332

TY2024

$219,426

TY2024 rollforward

Beginning balance$202,332
Investment earnings / losses$23,011
Ending balance$219,426

Allocation

1%

Board-designated

Source: Form 990, Schedule D, Part V. Endowment funds reflect the organization's long-term investment reserves.

Balance Sheet (Part X)

TY2024
LineDescriptionBOYEOY
16Total assets$6,952,549$7,306,545
26Total liabilities$1,982,381$1,952,124
33Total net assets or fund balances$4,970,168$5,354,421

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): 155

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
DAVID TUFTSDIRECTOR5Volunteer
JENNY ROSENBAUERDIRECTOR - TERM ENDED DURING YEAR5Volunteer
PATRICK BASSETTREASURER20Volunteer
VERONICA LYONSCORRESPONDING SECRETARY5Volunteer
FRANK SKLARSKYDIRECTOR5Volunteer
CHRIS GOLDSMITHRECORDING SECRETARY5Volunteer
BILLY FARMERDIRECTOR - JOINED DURING YEAR5Volunteer
JACK ODENBACHDIRECTOR - TERM ENDED DURING YEAR5Volunteer
PETER MENDICKCOMMODORE20Volunteer
JACK DEPETERSVICE-COMMODORE20Volunteer
KIM GANLEYREAR-COMMODORE20Volunteer
WILLIAM BUMPUSDIRECTOR - JOINED DURING YEAR5Volunteer
JOE DIVINCENZOPAST COMMODORE20Volunteer
JIM HYNESDIRECTOR - TERM ENDED DURING YEAR5Volunteer
KRISTOF WERNERDIRECTOR5Volunteer
MARGARET ALLOCCODIRECTOR - JOINED DURING YEAR5Volunteer

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

Governance data not available for this organization’s most recent filing year. This can occur for newly filed returns not yet in the corpus, or for organizations whose XML filing did not include Part VI.

Whistleblower Protection Policy

Form 990, Part VI — Line 13

Governance data not available for this organization’s most recent filing year.

Officer & Key Employee Compensation (Part VII)

Form 990, Part VII — Named individuals with reportable compensation

Part VII requires individual disclosure of all officers, directors, trustees, key employees, and the five highest-compensated employees earning above the reporting threshold. The individuals listed here are from the most recent available filing.

NameTitleComp from Org
MARY SMITH THRU AUG 2020CLUBHOUSE MANAGER$109,409
PETER ROGERSGENERAL MANAGER$82,000

Compensation shown is reportable compensation from this organization only, as disclosed in Part VII. The $150,000 threshold is significant context: most volunteer-run sailing clubs report $0 for all officers. When professional staff — a General Manager, Executive Director, or Harbor Master — earns above that level, it signals an org operating more like a business than a volunteer collective. That’s not inherently good or bad: a $12M club with 45 full-time employees may well need a $200K GM. But a $400K club paying its Commodore $180K warrants scrutiny.

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.

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 7B

CERTAIN DECISIONS OF THE GOVERNING BODY ARE SUBJECT TO MEMBER APPROVAL.

FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION A, LINE 7A

THE MEMBERS ELECT THE GOVERNING BODY.

FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 11B

THE CLUB'S FINANCE COMMITTEE (WHICH ALSO CONSISTS OF MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE) IS PRESENTED WITH A DRAFT OF THE FORM 990 BY ITS INDEPENDENT ACCCOUNTANTS, AND THE COMMITTEE REVIEWS AND APPROVES THE FORM. IN PRIOR YEARS, THE TREASURER WOULD PRESENT THE DRAFT OF THE FORM 990 TO ALL EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS AT A CLOSED BOARD MEETING FOR THEIR APPROVAL PRIOR TO SUBMISSION TO VARIOUS TAXING AUTHORITIES. GOING FORWARD, THE TREASURER WILL MAKE AVAILABLE TO THE OTHER BOARD MEMBERS WHO ARE NOT PA…

FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION C, LINE 19

ALL ITEMS ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST MADE TO THE ROCHESTER YACHT CLUB'S CLUB MANAGER.

FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION A, LINE 6

THE CLUB HAS APPROXIMATELY 196 VOTING MEMBERS.

Mission

THE PURPOSE OF THE CLUB SHALL BE TO PROMOTE INTEREST IN YACHTS AND YACHTING, TO TEACH AND PROMOTE THE PRINCIPLES OF SEAMANSHIP AND NAVIGATION, TO ENCOURAGE THE TRADITION OF YACHTING, TO ENCOURAGE AND TEACH YOUNG PEOPLE IN SEAMANSHIP AND YACHTING, TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN A SUITABLE CLUBHOUSE, ANCHORAGE AND FACILITIES FOR THE USE AND RECREATION OF ITS MEMBERS AND TO MAKE ANY AND ALL RULES AND TO DO ANY OTHER ACT OR THING INCIDENTAL TO OR CONNECTED WITH THE FOREGOING PURPOSES OR IN ADVANCEMENT THEREOF.

As stated in the organization's 990 filing.

IRS Source Filings

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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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📡 Filing Signals (3 total)

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