Fessenden Area Betterment Association Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
450411486
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2008
Location
Fessenden, ND, USA
Phone
7015473369
Rating confidence
Limited

Reported finances

Revenue
$7,536
Expenses
$13,237
Assets
$111,652

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

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • GERALD KLEIN (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • GERALD KLEIN (PRESIDENT)
  • AMY LAMM (SECRETARY)

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

He fessenden area betterment association, inc. Is a non profit corporation that is organized to promote the social welfare, common good, and general welfare of the people of the fessenden area communities. Our goal is to bring about civic betterments and social improvements.

What it reported doing in 2025

This organization, in various forms has been in existence since 1965. Some of the projects that they have been involved with, over the years, include: a grocery store, bowling alley & cafc), bringing cable tv to our community, bringing a group home to our community, retaining a pharmacist, remodeling a vacant building to bring in a call center that currently employs around 6 people, helping a local car repair shop with a business expansion, helping the school district rebuild the running track for the school athletes, helping with the financing of a business that built a car wash, helping with the business that started a computer store, and remodeling a vacant building for a fitness center. Rebuilt a community cafe, that had burned down and the previous owner declined to rebuild. Our current project is to help the community replace a cafe and meeting place. The cafc) completely burned on april 16, 2009. The new cafe building with equipment was placed in service on july 1, 2010. It is being rented to a local couple who are providing our commmunities with a local family style cafe.

Operating model

Revenue model
Investment-supported. 73% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 37
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -75.7%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.43; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -6.7% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -6.8% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 9/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.