CAVALIER GOLF & YACHT CLUB

EIN: 54-0701575 · VIRGINIA BEACH, VA · 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 basisAuditedAudit 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.

$10,840,290

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.

$11,237,057

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

$23,235,583

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

$12,779,910

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

Total compensation, benefits & payroll taxes (Part IX)

TY2024

$6,001,197

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

~$16,000 per employee average across 369 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 $3,536,553. The remaining $2,464,644 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

$58,249

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 $6,059,446.

Legal$31,216
Accounting$27,033

Functional Expense Allocation (Part IX)

TY2024

$11,237,057total 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$8,161,578$8,027,075$134,503$12,638,730
TY20212020–2021990$9,767,132$8,673,440$1,093,692$13,630,822
TY20222022+990$10,305,055$9,973,506$331,549$13,830,071
TY20232022+990$10,134,004$10,655,153-$521,149$13,269,033
TY20242022+990$10,840,290$11,237,057-$396,767$12,779,910

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$10,840,290
2aMEMBERSHIP DUES$5,600,574
2bGOLF INCOME$831,754
2cOTHER PROGRAM SERVICES$819,691
2dYACHTING INCOME$700,433
2eINITIATION FEES$489,698
2fTotal program service revenue$8,442,150
3Investment income$36,221

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
LineDescriptionBOYEOY
16Total assets$23,601,367$23,235,583
26Total liabilities$10,332,334$10,455,673
33Total net assets or fund balances$13,269,033$12,779,910

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): 14

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
OWEN THORNTONDIRECTOR1Volunteer
RYAN FERGUSONDIRECTOR1Volunteer
DAVID HODGSONVICE PRESIDENT OPERATIONS1Volunteer
JOHN NORRISGENERAL COUNSEL1Volunteer
TED HANDDIRECTOR1Volunteer
ROBBY JONESDIRECTOR1Volunteer
ED AUGUSTINEPRESIDENT1Volunteer
BOBBY COLLENBERGDIRECTOR1Volunteer
ANDY HILBERTTREASURER1Volunteer
JACKIE TURNERMEMBERSHIP CHAIR1Volunteer
MIMI BOSEMANSECRETARY1Volunteer
JANIS PROCKDIRECTOR1Volunteer
ALEX BRADLEYDIRECTOR1Volunteer
JASON MURPHYVICE PRESIDENT ADMINISTRAT1Volunteer

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
JOHN MILLESONGENERAL MANAGER/COO UNTIL 7/1/2020$241,706
JOHN MILLESONGENERAL MANAGER/COO UNTIL 7/1/2020$230,233
JOE ANDREWGENERAL MANAGER$230,000
JOE ANDREWGENERAL MANAGER$213,431
JOSEPH ANDREWGENERAL MANAGER/COO$187,747
MICHAEL MOYERHEAD TENNIS PROFESSIONAL$178,084
MICHAEL MOYERHEAD TENNIS PROFESSIONAL$177,838
MICHAEL MOYERHEAD TENNIS PROFESSIONAL$157,671

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

No independent compensation consultant reported for the most recent year with Schedule J data (2024). Executive pay was set through internal board processes — a compensation committee, comparison to prior years, or board vote — without outside benchmarking. This is common and not inherently concerning for organizations paying market-rate salaries. It becomes more notable as compensation levels rise and the board’s judgment becomes harder to validate externally.

Equity-Based Compensation

Schedule J, Part II — Per-person compensation detail

None reported

No equity-based compensation reported — expected for a nonprofit. Nonprofits cannot issue ownership stakes because they have no shareholders. In the for-profit world, equity aligns executive incentives with long-term value creation; the nonprofit analog takes different forms (retention bonuses, deferred comp) but not equity. Zero percent of organizations in the sailing and yacht club corpus report this. If any did, it would immediately raise questions about whether the arrangement is consistent with tax-exempt status.

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 7A

VOTING MEMBERS MAY VOTE, HOLD OFFICE AS DIRECTORS OR OFFICERS IF THEY ARE DOMICILED IN VIRGINIA, AND MAY SPONSOR NEW MEMBERS. SPOUSES OF VOTING MEMBERS, DURING THE CONTINUATION OF THE MARRIAGE, SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN CLUB AFFAIRS AND SERVE ON COMMITTEES AT THE PLEASURE OF THE BOARD, BUT SHALL NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE. CANDIDATES ARE POSTED FOR MEMBERS TO REVIEW AND THEN AT THE BOARD MEETING, THE BOARD ELECTS IF NO OBJECTIONS ARE MADE. NONVOTING MEMBERS MAY NOT VOTE, SERVE AS AN…

FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 15

A COMPENSATION COMMITTEE INCLUDING THE PRESIDENT FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS USES INDUSTRY STANDARDS MIXED WITH EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE TO DETERMINE COMPENSATION FOR THE GENERAL MANAGER AND OTHER KEY EMPLOYEES.

FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION C, LINE 18

THE 990 WILL BE AVAILABLE THROUGH GUIDESTAR'S WEBSITE. HARD COPIES WILL BE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.

FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION C, LINE 19

GOVERNING DOCUMENTS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ARE AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS ONLY BY REQUEST.

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

THE 990 IS SENT TO THE GENERAL MANAGER AND THE TREASURER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. BOTH MUST APPROVE THE 990 BEFORE IT IS FILED.

Mission

THE CAVALIER GOLF & YACHT CLUB IS A PRIVATE NONPROFIT SOCIAL, ATHLETIC AND RECREATIONAL CLUB. WE PROVIDE GOLFING, YACHTING, SWIMMING, TENNIS, DINING, AND OTHER SOCIAL, RECREATIONAL AND ATHLETIC FACILITIES FOR THE PLEASURE AND RECREATION OF OUR MEMBERS, THEIR FAMILIES AND INVITED GUESTS. OUR MISSION IS TO PROVIDE A FAMILY-ORIENTED ENVIRONMENT THAT SUPPORTS CLOSE PERSONAL CONTACT AND FELLOWSHIP AMONGST MEMBERS.

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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