Dairy Practices Council

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
161100839
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Monroe, ME, USA
Phone
4198905147
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Husbandry

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$102,173
Expenses
$122,729
Assets
$99,409
Liabilities
$248

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Wendry Landry (President)
  • Michelle Steinmetz (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Rebecca Piston (Exec Vice Pres)
  • Wendry Landry (President)
  • Michelle Steinmetz (Vice President)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To develop and disseminate educational guidelines directed to proper and improved sanitation practices in the production/processing of milk, and the manufacture of dairy products.

What it reported doing in 2025

Facilitate the adoption of sound, uniform, and improved procesures related to the production, processing, and distribution of high quality fluid milk and dairy products. The intent of these objectives is a cooperative effort of industry, education, and regulatory. The further interest is not to duplicate these objectives, but to cooperate with other organizations which have similar goals.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 95.1%; rating input score 95
  • Program expense ratio: 79.1%; rating input score 79

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -20.1%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 20.2%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 95.1% of revenue deployed · 79.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $97K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • 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 7/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.