Massachusetts Fishermens Mobile Gear Alliance Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
823109909
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2018–2019
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2019
Location
New Bedford, MA, USA
Phone
7744005724
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$28,700
Expenses
$1,904
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$77,781

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ALLEN W RENCURREL (President)
  • HOWARD MONTE ROME (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • ALLEN W RENCURREL (President)
  • DANIEL M COHEN (Treasurer)
  • HOWARD MONTE ROME (Vice President)

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 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Massachusetts Fishermen Mobile Gear Alliance has been established for the protection and preservation of the mobile gear fishery. The mission of this alliance is to maintain the health, wellbeing, sustainable harvest, and assure access by all mobile gear fisheries.

What it reported doing in 2019

The mission of the MFMGA is to represent Massachusetts mobile gear fishermen before the public and regulators to preserve and enhance access to Massachusetts fishery resources based on the best available science. The MFMGA advocates for fishermen in order to retain and enhance their fishing rights, access to areas, and to address and rectify any problem which poses harm to the mobile gear community. The MFMGA works to achieve the goals of the fishermen by communicating with the regulators, attending fisheries management meetings, utilizing the press and social media, coordinating with national fishery advocacy groups with similar goals, and maintain a website to educate the public.

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
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: 82
  • Sustainability: 54
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 93.4%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd 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: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 176% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2018 to 2019
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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 — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.