AUSTIN YACHT CLUB

EIN: 74-6056547 · AUSTIN, TX · 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.

$1,269,446

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.

$1,288,382

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

$2,489,644

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

$2,415,126

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

Total compensation, benefits & payroll taxes (Part IX)

TY2024

$280,296

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

~$20,000 per employee average across 14 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.

Professional & consulting fees (Part IX, line 11)

TY2024

$50,563

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 $330,859.

Legal$1,170
Accounting$49,393

Functional Expense Allocation (Part IX)

TY2024

$1,288,382total 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$875,818$852,239$23,579$2,173,560
TY20212020–2021990$1,095,105$938,574$156,531$2,330,091
TY20222022+990$1,155,179$1,018,573$136,606$2,469,944
TY20232022+990$1,180,348$1,244,425-$64,077$2,421,819
TY20242022+990$1,269,446$1,288,382-$18,936$2,415,126

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
11aINSURANCE CLAIM INCOME$9,471
12Total revenue$1,269,446
2aDOCK RENTALS$475,369
2bMEMBERSHIP DUES$460,918
2cCAMP AND CLINIC INCOME$241,472
2dINITIATION FEES$28,525
2eSAILING PROGRAM REVENUES$25,633
2fTotal program service revenue$1,254,754
3Investment income$29,769
6cNet rental income or (loss)$14,826

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$2,472,990$2,489,644
26Total liabilities$51,171$74,518
33Total net assets or fund balances$2,421,819$2,415,126

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): 90

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
BILL HAWKCOMMODORE10Volunteer
MIKE BEUERLEINHARBOR COMMANDER10Volunteer
BECKY HESTONTREASURER10Volunteer
RUSS SHERMERIMMEDIATE PAST COMMODORE10Volunteer
TERRY SCHERTZRACE COMMANDER10Volunteer
RENEE RUAISVICE COMMODORE10Volunteer
LYNN JAEGARSECRETARY10Volunteer
ROBERT BENNETTSAIL TRAINING COMMANDER10Volunteer
LEWIS PRICEBUILDINGS & GROUNDS COMMANDER10Volunteer

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

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.

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 B, LINE 12C

THE COMMODORE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ADDRESSING ANY EMPLOYEE CONFLICT OF INTEREST VIOLATIONS.

FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 15B

THE COMMODORE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR DETERMINING SALARIES FOR ALL EMPLOYEES, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE VICE COMMODORE AND IMMEDIATE PAST COMMODORE.

PART XII, LINE 2C

THE ORGANIZATION DID NOT CHANGE THE OVERSIGHT OF THE REVIEW FROM PRIOR YEAR.

FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION A, LINE 6

AUSTIN YACHT CLUB IS A MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATION. THE SIX CLASSES OF MEMBERSHIP ARE LIFE (VOTING), SENIOR (VOTING), ASSOCIATE (NON-VOTING), YOUNG ADULT (VOTING), STUDENT (NON-VOTING) AND HONORARY (NON-VOTING).

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

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS IS THE POLICY MAKING BODY OF THE AUSTIN YACHT CLUB. THE BOARD IS ELECTED ANNUALLY DURING THE GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING AT THE END OF THE YEAR.

Mission

PROMOTING THE SPORT OF SAILING ON LAKE TRAVIS THROUGH REGATTAS, RACES, AND SAIL TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR ALL AGES.

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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