DEEP CREEK LAKE SAILING ASSOCIATION

EIN: 52-1223174 · OAKLAND, MD · 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.

Cash 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.

$406,784

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.

$493,731

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

$4,924,618

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.

$2,965,087

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

$11,627

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

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

$28,800

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 $40,427.

Management$15,200
Accounting$13,600

Functional Expense Allocation (Part IX)

TY2025

$493,731total functional expenses

65.6%

Program services

$324,059

6.0%

Management & general

$29,562

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

-21.4%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)

72.1 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)

-24.1%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
TY20202020–2021990EZ$184,425$150,122$34,303$445,466
TY20212020–2021990$886,154$192,982$693,172$1,138,239
TY20222022+990$1,206,052$175,539$1,030,513$2,165,865
TY20232022+990$1,098,893$293,379$805,514$2,971,375
TY20242022+990$536,000$457,110$78,890$3,050,336
TY20252022+990$406,784$493,731-$86,947$2,965,087

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$406,784
1bMembership dues$333,646
1fAll other contributions, gifts, grants$28,591
1hTotal contributions and grants$362,237
2aMEALS, BEVERAGE AND SO$22,882
2bMOORING FEES$4,798
2cDOCK PUSH/DOCK PULL$3,300
2dFLYING SCOT LIFT FEES$3,300
2eBEVERAGE LOCKER$2,970
2fTotal program service revenue$44,254
3Investment income$293

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$5,011,443$4,924,618
26Total liabilities$1,961,107$1,959,531
33Total net assets or fund balances$3,050,336$2,965,087

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): 15

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
JOHN LATIMERPAST COMMODORE1Volunteer
ANTHONY CELOVICE COMMODORE1Volunteer
ANNE GRAHAMCOMMODORE5Volunteer
AMY KUSICTREASURER2Volunteer
JUDY WETZELHOUSE CHAIR2Volunteer
MARK HARAWAYMEMBERSHIP CHAIR2Volunteer
TOM PLOFCHANSECRETARY2Volunteer

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

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

5

Independent Members

5

Total Employees

0

Total Volunteers

50

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

ORGANIZATION INDUCTS MEMBERS ON AN ANNUAL BASIS PER THE BYLAWS

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

ANNUAL ELECTION OF OFFICERS IS HELD AND VOTED UPON BY MEMBERS

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

CERTAIN DECISIONS, INCLUDING THOSE REGARDING CLUB FACILITY EXPANSION, REQUIRE FULL MEMBERSHIP VOTE PER THE BYLAWS

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

COPY OF FORM 990 PROVIDED TO ALL BOARD MEMBERS FOR REVIEW

FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION C, LINE 19

DOCUMENTS ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST OF THE COMMODORE

Mission

SOCIAL CLUB ORGANIZED AND OPERATED EXCLUSIVELY FOR PLEASURE, RECREATION, AND OTHER NON-PROFITABLE PURPOSES.

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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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.

Minor

Expenses grew faster than labor

Total expenses rose 8% (TY2024→TY2025) 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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