Mason County Forest Festival Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 916034571
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Shelton, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3604906176
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,654
- Expenses
- $94,608
- Assets
- $52,321
- Liabilities
- $5,521
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL SPROUFFSKE JR (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MICHAEL SPROUFFSKE JR (PRESIDENT)
- AMY COOPER (VICE PRESIDE)
- CHERYL EARSLEY (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Forest festival is an annual event held to celebrate and promote mason county's forest heritage, culture and economic livelihood.
What it reported doing in 2024
Promotion and hosting of the annual parade, logging show, and related events, in order to celebrate and educate the community in the forest industry and its traditions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 66% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.4%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 87.8%; rating input score 88
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.1%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.4% of revenue deployed · 87.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $83K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.