Livestock Master Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911540878
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Stanwood, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3606529852
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Husbandry
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $82,981
- Expenses
- $55,509
- Assets
- $177,071
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Nelson (President)
- Kassandra Burnham (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- John Nelson (President)
- Kassandra Burnham (Vice President)
- Donna Milton (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
Assist in sponsoring the Country Living Expo and Cattlemens Winterschool which provides educational classes to encourage family sustainability with classes on growing your own vegetables, preserving your food, raising fruits and preserving, raising small urban livestock in conjunction with one's family garden, processing your small livestock and raising. We also support the cost of presenting a 10 week educational program for individuals wishing to become Livestock Advisors. This program is open to all persons interested in learning to raise livestock using "Best Management Practices".
What it reported doing in 2025
Presents a 10 week educational program for individuals wishing to be "Livestock Advisors". Presenting a Country Living Expo and Cattlemen's Winterschool, offering over 150 classes per year.
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 33
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 28.1%; rating input score 28
- Program expense ratio: 42%; rating input score 42
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 33.1%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.19; rating input score 76; 76th 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: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 33.6% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 28.1% of revenue deployed · 42% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $23K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 42/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.