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HOUSTON YACHT CLUB

HOUSTON YACHT CLUB (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $256,550 to it, the largest being RAGNOT AMATEUR SAILING ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS ($256,550). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.6M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$257k
Net assets
$543k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Houston Yacht Club does

Mission

The purpose of the Houston Yacht Club is to encourage and support the sport of yachting, sailing, and related activities, including providing fellowship in the yachting community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The club provides social activities (including food service), educational programs, and boat storage facilities for its approximately 350 members, their families, and club guests. There is a strong emphasis on educational youth programs as well as adult racing, education and yachting events. In addition, the club supports conservation and environmental projects in galveston bay.

    $3,688,545 spent$1,455,833 earned by the program
    97% of program spending
  2. The club offers after-school and summer programs for youth education. The youth program provides educational programs to over 200 youth on boating safety and racing, leadership, and supports the youth in regional and national sailing and racing competitions. The club hosted numerous youth regattas, including texas youth race week, various specialty clinics and tsa events, and fall and spring after-school programs. Onshore activities included educational pursuits, leadership training, and color guard change of watch. Also, hyc youth regularly participate in north american and us national championships.

    $90,960 spent$125,906 earned by the program
    2% of program spending
  3. The club sponsors sailboat races and training throughout the year for its members, including specialty clinics, texas sailing association (tsa) youth events, and both fall, winter, and spring after-school programs. Onshore activities include educational programs, leadership training, social programs, and the color guard change of watch ceremony. Hyc youth and adults regularly participate in north american and u.s. National championships. The club also hosts races and regattas for sailboat fleets outside the club and trains race management officials who volunteer for local and national events. Educational and information seminars on various aspects are also offered to hundreds of thousands of families in our community and membership each year.

    $21,397 spent$57,660 earned by the program
    1% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,800,902.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($2.5M) Expenses 100 ($2.8M) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 109 ($2.8M) Expenses 117 ($3.2M) Net assets 65 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 147 ($3.7M) Expenses 130 ($3.6M) Net assets 73 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 125 ($3.2M) Expenses 128 ($3.5M) Net assets 53 ($913k)2024 Revenue 138 ($3.5M) Expenses 131 ($3.6M) Net assets 46 ($794k)2025 Revenue 140 ($3.6M) Expenses 138 ($3.8M) Net assets 31 ($543k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (140)Expenses (138)Net assets (31)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $4.3M to $3.8M (−12%).

$4.3M
$3.8M
$4.0M
$3.6M
$3.3M
$2.9M
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$227k
’20
−$472k
’21
$139k
’22
−$348k
’23
−$120k
’24
−$251k
’25
0.9
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

202020212022202320242025
Listed171716161616
Joined·+4+3+7+4+4
No longer listed·44744
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $9k → $164k.

Funder
'21
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of HOUSTON YACHT CLUB’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of HOUSTON YACHT CLUB's grant income comes from Texas funders.

TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds HOUSTON YACHT CLUB?
HOUSTON YACHT CLUB (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $256,550 to it, the largest being RAGNOT AMATEUR SAILING ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS ($256,550). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HOUSTON YACHT CLUB have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $256,550 in grants to HOUSTON YACHT CLUB, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOUSTON YACHT CLUB?
RAGNOT AMATEUR SAILING ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS is the largest funder on record, with $256,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOUSTON YACHT CLUB find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing