BURNHAM PARK YACHT CLUB INC

EIN: 23-7060724 · CHICAGO, IL · Data spans: TY2019–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 basisCompiled / reviewedAudit committeePart 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.

$706,237

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.

$710,212

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

$510,093

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

$489,390

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

Total compensation, benefits & payroll taxes (Part IX)

TY2025

$445,267

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

~$11,000 per employee average across 39W-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

$6,730

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 $451,997.

Legal$580
Other$6,150

Functional Expense Allocation (Part IX)

TY2025

$710,212total functional expenses

85.8%

Program services

$609,112

14.2%

Management & general

$101,100

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
TY2019Before 2020990N/AN/AN/A
TY2019Before 2020990$648,852$673,304-$24,452$634,051
TY20202020–2021990N/AN/AN/A
TY20202020–2021990$537,337$554,701-$17,364$616,687
TY20212020–2021990N/AN/AN/A
TY20212020–2021990$541,365$510,130$31,235$566,458
TY20222022+990N/AN/AN/A
TY20222022+990$560,636$557,918$2,718$548,938
TY20232022+990N/AN/AN/A
TY20232022+990$511,028$583,151-$72,123$476,815
TY20242022+990N/AN/AN/A
TY20242022+990$609,710$606,765$2,945$493,365
TY20252022+990$706,237$710,212-$3,975$489,390

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
11aAuxiliary Income$17,992
12Total revenue$706,237
1bMembership dues$355,238
1hTotal contributions and grants$355,238
2aClub Facilities$23,326
2fTotal program service revenue$23,326
3Investment income$395

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$525,083$510,093
26Total liabilities$31,718$20,703
33Total net assets or fund balances$493,365$489,390

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): 50

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
Leticia NietoSecretary10Volunteer
Sonya YeadonTreasurer10Volunteer
John DolanskyRear Commodore10Volunteer
Charlie FerreiraVice Commodore10Volunteer
CJ DillonCommodore10Volunteer

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

Yes

This organization has a written conflict of interest policy requiring officers, directors, and key employees to disclose any personal financial interest in a pending decision — and to step back from that vote. Examples in the sailing world: a board member whose construction company is bidding on a dock renovation, or a director who refers their spouse’s firm for the annual audit. Having a policy doesn’t eliminate conflicts; it creates a documented process for surfacing and managing them. Only 41% of organizations in this corpus report having one.

Whistleblower Protection Policy

Form 990, Part VI — Line 13

Yes

A formal process exists for employees, volunteers, or members to report suspected misconduct — and formal protection from retaliation for those who do. This creates a safe channel to flag irregular expense reimbursements, undisclosed vendor relationships, or cash handling questions. In a tight-knit club environment where a small officer corps controls both operations and finances, this protection matters more than the formal policy language might suggest. Only 27.5% of organizations in this corpus report having one.

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

135

Independent Members

135

Total Employees

39

Total Volunteers

25

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.

Members or stockholder classes and rights Part VI line 6

Organization has members which apply and are voted into the membership body by majority vote of the Board of Directors.

Member election for additional members Part VI line 7a

Organizations Board of Directors are elected by the regular membership of the Organization.

Governing body decisions Part VI line 7b

General membership has to vote to approve expenditures over $10,000. General regular membership elects the Board of Directors.

Form 990 governing body review Part VI line 11

An outside accountant assists the organization with the preparation fo the Form 990. The final copy of the return is provided to an officer for review prior to filing. The return is made available to the remaining board members for them to examine, however, their review is not required board activity.

Conflict of interest policy compliance Part VI line 12c

The Commodore and General Manager review this policy with the Board of Directors. Each position is aware of this policy and no payments are made without Purchase Order approval, noting the approval process for any expenditure.

Mission

The organization provides a full service yacht club to promote participation in all facets of recreational boating. The club also provides a junior sailing program and its facilities are available for organizations to conduct seminars to foster knowledge of seasmanship.

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)TY2019 (990)TY2019 (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 52% 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 (21 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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