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← THE GREAT HARBOR YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC

Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by THE GREAT HARBOR YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$751,989
Total expenses
$557,660
Contributions and grants received
$609,163
Grants paid
$297,731
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$166,738
Other revenue
-$23,912
Total assets, end of year
$3,851,940
Total liabilities, end of year
$11,498
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$3,840,442
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$354,581
Management and general expenses
$203,079
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$354,581

Program services were 63.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $368,600

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $240,563

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $86,724 · excluded $86,724

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $162,903

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $82,889

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $80,014

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $80,014 · excluded $80,014

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $338,163

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $368,600

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $367,475

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$29,312 · excluded -$29,312

  • 11a · Other revenue: OTHER REVENUE

    total $5,400 · related or exempt $5,400

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $5,400

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $297,731 · program services $297,731

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $157,029 · management and general $157,029

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $9,225 · management and general $9,225

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $14,443 · management and general $14,443

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $16,391 · management and general $16,391

  • 17 · Travel

    total $4,266 · management and general $4,266

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $1,725 · management and general $1,725

  • 24a · Other expenses: OTHER PROGRAM EXPENSES

    total $56,850 · program services $56,850

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $152,154 · end of year $74,294

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $3,227,474 · end of year $3,708,936

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $61,936 · end of year $58,710

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $1,500 · end of year $10,000

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $842 · end of year $11,498

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $3,422,222 · end of year $3,840,442

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $20,000 · end of year $0

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

THE PURPOSE OF THE CORPORATION IS TO ACT AS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATION WITH A PRIMARY MISSION OF PROMOTING THE HEALTH OF NANTUCKET ISLANDS HARBOR AND ITS MARINE ECOSYSTEM. THE CORPORATION WILL WORK WITH THE NANTUCKET DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND OTHER GOVERNMENTAL AND NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS, GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS IN FURTHERANCE OF ITS PRIMARY MISSION AND OTHER ACTIVITIES. THE CORPORATION MAY SOLICIT DONATIONS, MAKE GRANTS AND OTHERWISE ENGAGE IN ANY AND ALL ACTIVITIES PERMITTED TO A NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION WHETHER IN FURTHERANCE OF ITS MISSION OR OTHER CHARITABLE ENDEAVORS, OTHER ACTIONS AS MAY BE NECESSARY OR EXPEDIENT FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE AFFAIRS AND ATTAINMENT OF THE PURPOSES OF THE CORPORATION, AND FOR ALL OTHER ACTIVITIES LEGAL AND CONSISTENT WITH THE OPERATION OF A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE ORGANIZATION WILL WORK WITH THE NANTUCKET NATURAL RESOURCES DEPARTMENT AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH OF NANTUCKET HARBOR AND ITS MARINE ECOSYSTEMS. RECENTLY FUNDED PROJECTS INCLUDED NANTUCKET STORMWATER MONITORING, A HARBOR HEALTH SCORECARD, YOUTH HARBOR EDUCTION PROGRAM, AND OCEAN ACIDIFICATION BUOY. UPCOMING PROJECTS INCLUDE SCALLOP RESEARCH AND MENTORING PROGRAM, EELGRASS MANAGEMENT PLAN, NANTUCKET HARBOR HEALTH INTEGRATION INITIATIVE, MICROPLASTICS STUDY, AMONG OTHERS.

  • THE GREAT HARBOR YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION WAS FORMED IN 2018 AND IS DEDICATED TO THE PROMOTION AND PRESERVATION OF NANTUCKET HARBOR AND ITS MARINE ECOSYSTEM. THE FOUNDATION WILL WORK WITH THE TOWN OF NANTUCKET'S DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND OTHERS TO FUND PROJECTS WHICH MIGHT OTHERWISE GO UNFUNDED IN FURTHERANCE OF THE FOUNDATION'S MISSION AND THE TOWN OF NANTUCKET'S STRATEGIC HARBOR PLAN.

    Expenses $354,581 · Grants $297,731 · Revenue $5,400

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Ed Orenstein

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Karen Ketterer

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 2 related
  • Chris Brewster

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 2 related
  • Paul Collins

    CLERK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Edward Bernard

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Elizabeth Gerstner

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Flip Huffard

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeff Krupa

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Melinda Puljic

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joe Smialowski

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Alicia Seiger

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brooke Stanton

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lisa Van Den Born

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Elliot Gewirtz

    CHAIRMAN EMERITUS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

  • TOWN OF NANTUCKET NATURAL RESOURCE DEPT

    $95,350

    PURCHASE OF A BIOREACTOR FROM INDUSTRIAL PLANKTON FOR THE TOWN OF NANTUCKET

  • TO OCEAN ACIDIFICATION BUOY GRANT AND TO SUPPORT SCALLOP RESEARCH AND MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

  • DONATION MADE FOR SUPPORTING OUR YOUTH PROGRAM

  • NANTUCKET FIELD STATION - UMASS

    $30,000

    DONATION MADE FOR SUPPORTING OUR YOUTH PROGRAM

  • DONATION MADE FOR SUPPORTING OUR YOUTH PROGRAM

  • UMASS BOSTON SCHOOL FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

    $15,581

    GRANT: ASSESSING MICROPLASTIC DANGERS IN STORMWATER

  • NEW SAILS FOR NHS

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2025
Filed
28 May 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.1
Source object
202621609349301522

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