HARBOR WEST YACHT CLUB

EIN: 38-2608763 · TRAVERSE CITY, MI · Data spans: TY2020–TY2025

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.

$325,090

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.

$213,684

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

$585,076

Net Assetsℹ️Form 990, Part X — Total assets minus total liabilities (also called fund balance). Positive values indicate assets exceed liabilities; negative values indicate liabilities exceed assets.

$579,871

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

Total compensation, benefits & payroll taxes (Part IX)

TY2025

$0

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

Part VII‑A reports W-2 compensation to named individuals on a calendar-year basis. Part IX reports total compensation expense for the fiscal year. These are measured differently and do not reconcile to the same total. No data error is implied.

Professional & consulting fees (Part IX, line 11)

TY2025

$83,145

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 $83,145.

Management$63,100
Legal$2,221
Accounting$17,824

Functional Expense Allocation (Part IX)

TY2025

$213,684total functional expenses

89.3%

Program services

$190,891

10.7%

Management & general

$22,793

0.0%

Fundraising

$0

Source: Form 990, Part IX, line 25.

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

+34.3%TY2025

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.

Net asset reserve (months, proxy)

32.6 monthsTY2025

Total net assets divided by monthly expense. Proxy only — includes restricted assets. Part X balance sheet data required for a more precise figure.

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)

+18.8%TY2025

Change in total revenue from TY2024 to TY2025.

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 YearPeriodFormRevenueExpensesNet RevenueNet Assets
TY20202020–2021990$268,652$213,578$55,074$361,963
TY20212020–2021990$368,291$493,571-$125,280$236,683
TY20222022+990$267,269$224,861$42,408$279,091
TY20232022+990$266,615$209,098$57,517$386,608
TY20242022+990$273,666$191,808$81,858$468,466
TY20252022+990$325,090$213,684$111,406$579,871

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$325,090
2aMEMBER ASSESSMENTS$264,696
2bOTHER ASSESSMENTS$50,000
2cLOUNGE RENTAL$700
2dMISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS$552
2fTotal program service revenue$315,948
3Investment income$9,142

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$493,528$585,076
26Total liabilities$25,063$5,205
33Total net assets or fund balances$468,465$579,871

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): 12

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
DON NOWKASECRETARY2Volunteer
SCOTT GIGNILLIATCOMMODORE2Volunteer
GWYNNE ANDERSONDIRECTOR2Volunteer
GERRY SHIFFMANDIRECTOR2Volunteer
ED SANDSDIRECTOR2Volunteer
CRAIG WITTDIRECTOR2Volunteer

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

Not reported

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

Not reported

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

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
ANGELA GLYNNTREASURER$13,404

Compensation shown is reportable compensation from this organization only, as disclosed in Part VII. Most volunteer-run sailing clubs report $0 officer compensation, while larger organizations may report paid executive roles. The figures above show exactly what this filing reports for named individuals.

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

7

Independent Members

7

Total Employees

0

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 6, PART VI, LINE 6

TO BE A MEMBER OF THE CLUB THE INDIVIDUAL MUST OWN A BOAT SLIP WITHIN THE BOUNDRIES OF THE MARINA.

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

THE MEMBERS OF THE CLUB ELECT THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND EACH MEMBER IS ENTITLED TO ONE VOTE.

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

THE TREASURER AND COMMODORE REVIEW THE TAX RETURN AND DISCUSS ANY ISSUES CONCERNING THE TAX REPORTING WITH THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

FORM 990, PAGE 6, PART VI, LINE 19

THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ARE NOT AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AS IT DOES NOT SOLICIT OR ACCEPT PUBLIC FUNDS. THE GOVERNING DOCUMENTS ARE AVAILABLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC THROUGH THE ORGANIZATIONS WEB SITE.

Mission

SOCIAL CLUB

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 (11 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.

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