SEQUOIA YACHT CLUB

EIN: 94-6037163 · REDWOOD CITY, CA · 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 basisNo audit disclosedPart 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.

$331,892

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.

$307,446

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

$429,565

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

$399,264

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

Total compensation, benefits & payroll taxes (Part IX)

TY2024

$24,885

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

~$6,000 per employee average across 4 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

$9,202

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 $34,087.

Accounting$3,160
Other$6,042

Functional Expense Allocation (Part IX)

TY2024

$307,446total functional expenses

96.7%

Program services

$297,236

3.3%

Management & general

$10,210

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
TY20202020–2021990EZ$141,946$127,990$13,956$358,483
TY20212020–2021990EZ$144,810$154,918-$10,108$348,375
TY20222022+990$226,302$223,945$2,357$355,749
TY20232022+990$236,833$217,764$19,069$374,818
TY20242022+990$331,892$307,446$24,446$399,264

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$331,892
1bMembership dues$130,496
1hTotal contributions and grants$130,496
2aBAR$62,622
2bBOATING ACTIVITIES$41,278
2cCLUBHOUSE RENTAL$19,125
2dSAIL TRAINING$15,820
2eSOCIAL EVENTS/DINNERS$62,807
2fTotal program service revenue$201,652
3Investment income$130

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$390,782$429,565
26Total liabilities$15,964$30,301
33Total net assets or fund balances$374,818$399,264

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): 39

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
IAN BROSNANDirector3Volunteer
WILL LARSENDirector3Volunteer
MARTON NEHERDirector3Volunteer
KRISTAN VERVENIOTISDirector3Volunteer
SAMANTHA CHIUDirector3Volunteer
FRIEDRICH FINCKENSTEINDirector3Volunteer
ERIK JESSENCOMMODORE3Volunteer
STACY MARKELVICE COMMODORE3Volunteer
ANDREW LESSLIEPORT CAPTAIN3Volunteer
PAUL MORGAN-WITTSREAR COMMODORE3Volunteer
HANS SPANJAARTSTAFF COMMODORE3Volunteer
MAGGIE HEILMANSecretary3Volunteer
JF HERVYTreasurer3Volunteer

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 IX, Line 24e

SHOREBOATS/IN-WATER PROPERTY: Column (A) - Total = $10738; Column (B) - Program Services = $10738; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0

Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e

SOFTWARE SUBSCRIPTIONS: Column (A) - Total = $6591; Column (B) - Program Services = $6591; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0

Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e

TROPHIES & AWARDS: Column (A) - Total = $574; Column (B) - Program Services = $574; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0

Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e

REIMBURSED EXPENSE : Column (A) - Total = $100; Column (B) - Program Services = $100; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0

Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e

SAIL TRAINING EXPENSE: Column (A) - Total = $3771; Column (B) - Program Services = $3771; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0

Mission

TO ACTIVELY PROMOTE AND SUPPORT BOATING ACTIVITIES, AND TO PROVIDE A PLACE FOR MEMBERS TO GATHER AND SOCIALIZE

As stated in the organization's 990 filing.

IRS Source Filings

Source filings are IRS e-file records in XML (Extensible Markup Language) format — a structured data standard used by the IRS for electronic filing. If you open one of these links, it will look like code. That's not an error — that's what XML looks like. Harbor Commons processes this raw XML and presents the structured, readable view you see above.

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

Expenses grew faster than labor

Total expenses rose 41% (TY2023→TY2024) 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?

Mild

Labor's share of expenses declined over two years

Labor costs as a share of total expenses fell 8 percentage points over two years — from 16% (TY2022) to 8% (TY2024).

Why it matters: A gradual structural shift in cost mix — even if intentional — can reflect erosion of the org's staffing model or increasing reliance on outside labor.

Operator question: Was this shift intentional strategy, or did it happen by constraint?

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 (6 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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