Marquette Figure Skating Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382397272
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Marquette, MI, USA
- Phone
- 6513155880
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Winter Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $252,659
- Expenses
- $240,477
- Assets
- $367,530
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JORDAN GRAWIEN (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ERICA NOE (TREASURER): $4,410 total reported compensation
- LINNEA GUSTAFSON (DIRECTOR): $1,281 total reported compensation
- KIMBER ANDERSON (SECRETARY): $333 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 marquette figure skating club (mfsc) is a non-profit organization founded in 1971. It is based at the lakeview arena, marquette, Michigan. The club is administered by a board of directors elected by the membership made up of skating and non-skating members. Mfsc is affiliated with u.s. Figure skating (usfs), which is the national governing body of eligible figure skating in the united states. The usfs sets the standards and rules under which all member clubs operate. Club activities the mfsc offers various activities during the skating season, including: ice show: at the end of the winter skating season, the club's production of "melody on ice" entertains thousands of spectators. Club members appear in group numbers and, as their skating progresses, in featured roles. To minimize disruption of regularly scheduled skating, rehearsals are concentrated into just the few weeks prior to the performance. Awards banquet: at the end of the winter skating season, club members and their frie
What it reported doing in 2025
Marquette international open competition (mio) is a regional competition sponsored by the marquette figure skating club that provides skaters the opportunity to compete in their sport.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 80% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.9%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.8%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.53; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.6%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.8% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $240K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $4K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.