Maritime Transportation System Information Sharing & Analysis Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844678693
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Bryant, AR, USA
- Phone
- 7035778755
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $594,761
- Expenses
- $375,695
- Assets
- $274,875
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHAWN WHITESIDE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISTY COFFEY (SECRETARY): $99,000 total reported compensation
- SHAWN WHITESIDE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $33,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The corporation promotes and facillitates maritime cybersecurity information sharing, awareness, training and collaboration efforts between private and public sector members to effectively improve cyber risk management across the entire mts community through improved prevention, detection, response and recovery efforts.
What it reported doing in 2025
The mts-isac provided maritime cyber threat information to personnel in over 180 organizations, with information sometimes going to dozens of individuals within an organization. These organizations included private industry critical infrastructure stakeholders as well as federal agency organizations (which provided no resources or funding to the mts-isac in 2025). The information provided to these organizations was timely and included in whole or in part (depending on their participation with the mts-isac) access to: 98 cybersecurity advisories, 844 indicator bulletins, more than 12 webinars, and multiple open calls to discuss cybersecurity. This work was accomplished as the mts-isac responded to over 110 requests for information and analyzed 1,762 threat information shares (with one share sometimes containing dozens of attachments and hundreds of data points needing review). The outcomes of this work provided the following results to maritime critical infrastructure stakeholders: early warning of cyber threat activity, including phishing, credential stuffing, scanning, vulnerability exploitations, and other attack behaviors; and cybersecurity best practices that could be applied to counter those attacks.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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: 50
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 36.8%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 35.1%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 20.6% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $99K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes foreign activity
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.