German Gun Collectors Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020509875
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Batavia, NY, USA
- Phone
- 4355287966
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $21,018
- Expenses
- $27,274
- Assets
- $12,014
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tom Devers (President)
- Christian Egli (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Tom Devers (President)
- Joe Heidermann (Treasurer)
- Christian Egli (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Organization's mission is to preserve the history of Germanic hunting and sporting guns and their makers for us and for future generations; and to share this history with like-minded people in the United States, in Germany and the entire world.
What it reported doing in 2024
The German Gun Collectors Association is an educational institution dedicated to the study of middle European sporting arms of the modern era. On a continuing basis, we maintain an archive of magazines, books, and catalogs for the use of researchers; an informational website (www.germanguns.com); a bookstore with informational titles; and an email address ([email protected]) to assist with inquiries, of which there were many in the fiscal year ending 9/30/25 about our subject. This is a free service to the general public.In the fiscal year ending 9/30/25, we published two professionally composed and printed informational magazines and one calendar. Our in-house publication staff, including our writers and editors, are all volunteers and receive no monetary compensation. We also attended various shows to promote our association including the Antique Arms show in Las Vegas, the Colorado Gun Collectors Show, the Ohio Gun Collectors Show, and the Tulsa Gun Show. Members attending these venues do so at their own expense.Our income is entirely derived from our five hundred plus world-wide memberships, donations, advertising in our magazines, and book sales; and is principally used to finance our publications, show registrations, and office expenses.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -29.8%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 27; 27th 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: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $27K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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 18/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.