Massachusetts Bass Federation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043427884
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New Bedford, MA, USA
- Phone
- 5087891344
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fishing, Hunting
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $33,745
- Expenses
- $24,726
- Assets
- $22,920
- Liabilities
- $765
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSEPH MCKINNON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOSEPH MCKINNON (PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT RIVET (TREASURER)
- ERIK SWANSON (CLERK)
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
The promotion of bass fishing
What it reported doing in 2025
Scholarships, and donations to various non-profitagencies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 80% for direct work, and 20% for grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 38
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 33%; rating input score 33
- Program expense ratio: 45%; rating input score 45
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 26.7%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.93; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.8% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 33% of revenue deployed · 45% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $11K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.