Association of Montana Turf Ornamental & Pest Professionals
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810464667
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Townsend, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4062040100
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $130,159
- Expenses
- $135,993
- Assets
- $32,272
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Owen Nickol (President)
- James Roberts (Vice President)
- Lydia Heser (Past President)
People named in this filing
- Owen Nickol (President)
- James Roberts (Vice President)
- W Dudley Marburger (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Education for membership through pre conference classes, conference and trade show, and summer workshops with hands on training. All classes provide CEU's in one or more for Pesticide Applicators, Arborist, Urban IPM, and Structural Pest Control personnel.
What it reported doing in 2024
Advanced Rigging; Basic Tree Climbing; Plant Healthcare; and Ground Crew Academy (4 class groups over 2 days classes; hands on for advanced rigging operations for arborist, climbing basics for arborist covering gear and techniques; classroom and field time for plant healthcare identification, techniques, products, and equipment; Ground Crew Academy covering setting up job site, chipper safety, truck/trailer safety & parking; and new tree planting and pruning. First Aid classes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 71% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 60.3%; rating input score 60
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.5%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.9%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 76.7% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63% of revenue deployed · 60.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $82K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.