RUSH CREEK YACHT CLUB

EIN: 75-1335951 · HEATH, TX · 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.

$1,179,798

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.

$1,123,115

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

$1,169,620

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.

$781,263

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

Total compensation, benefits & payroll taxes (Part IX)

TY2025

$408,136

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

~$26,000 per employee average across 16W-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

$20,888

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 $429,024.

Legal$6,905
Accounting$13,983

Functional Expense Allocation (Part IX)

TY2025

$1,123,115total functional expenses

83.7%

Program services

$939,608

16.3%

Management & general

$183,507

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

+4.8%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)

8.3 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)

+0.1%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
TY20202020–2021990$742,336$763,705-$21,369$690,089
TY20212020–2021990$945,674$832,688$112,986$803,075
TY20222022+990$966,141$1,056,215-$90,074$713,002
TY20232022+990$1,069,074$1,075,660-$6,586$706,416
TY20242022+990$1,178,071$1,159,709$18,362$725,253
TY20252022+990$1,179,798$1,123,115$56,683$781,263

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
11aLOSS (GAIN) ON SALE OF ASSETS$3,500
12Total revenue$1,179,798
1bMembership dues$449,631
1fAll other contributions, gifts, grants$88,813
1hTotal contributions and grants$538,444

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$1,159,808$1,169,620
26Total liabilities$434,555$388,357
33Total net assets or fund balances$725,253$781,263

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): 40

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
DAVID CHRISTENSENCOMMODORE10Volunteer
DAVID WARRENVICE COMMODO10Volunteer
DAVID HAMILTONTREASURER10Volunteer
CHRIS TIERNEYSECRETARY10Volunteer

Programs (Part III — most recent year)

Form 990, Part III — Statement of Program Service Accomplishments. These are the activities that directly further the organization's exempt purpose. Expenses, grants, and revenue are as reported in the organization's own sworn filing.

IN AN EFFORT TO PROMOTE THE SCIENCE OF SEAMANSHIP WE PROVIDE SAILING EDUCATION AND SAILING CLASSES TO OUR MEMBERSHIP AND TO THE PUBLIC THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. WE HELD 238 CLASSES AND SERVED 206 STUDENTS. WE MAKE AVAILABLE AN INSTRUCTOR, A FLEET OF SAILBOATS AND SIGNIFICANT SUPPORT EQUIPMENT TO OUR CLASSES.

OTHER

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

Reported: 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. A documented policy creates a formal process for surfacing and managing potential conflicts. In this corpus, 41% of organizations report having 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

13

Independent Members

13

Total Employees

16

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 - ORGANIZATION'S MISSION

THE BYLAWS STATE THAT THE OBJECTIVES OF THE CLUB SHALL BE TO ENCOURAGE THE SPORT OF YACHTING, TO PROMOTE THE SCIENCE OF SEAMANSHIP, AND TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN FACILITIES FOR THE PURSUIT OF THE ABOVE OBJECTIVES FOR THE USE OF MEMBERS ON A NON-PROFIT BASIS.

FORM 990, PAGE 2, PART III, LINE 4D

OTHER

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

FORM 990 AND FORM 990-T ARE PREPARED BY AN UNRELATED CPA FROM RECORDS COMPLETED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS TREASURER, THE OFFICE MANAGER AND AN OUTSIDE CONSULTANT. THE PREPARED RETURNS ARE THEN PRESENTED FOR REVIEW TO THE GOVERNING BODY. ONCE APPROVED THEY ARE FILED WITH THE IRS.

FORM 990, PAGE 6, PART VI, LINE 19

DOCUMENTS ARE PROVIDED UPON REQUEST

FORM 990, PART VII

SECTION A, LINE 1A: NO MEMBER OF THE GOVERNING BODY RECEIVES ANY COMPENSATION. NO EMPLOYEES RECEIVED MORE THAN 100,000 IN COMPENSATION.

Mission

SAILING AND INSTRUCTION IN SAILING

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.

Notable

Revenue per employee rose sharply

Revenue per employee grew 66% 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 (13 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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