Master National Amateur Retriever Club Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475586408
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Colchester, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8603030280
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Training, Behavior
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $152,748
- Expenses
- $133,035
- Assets
- $194,285
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jace Tramontin (President)
- Tim Bass (Vice President Central Region)
- Rex Gibson (Vice President West Central Region)
- Brook Douglas (Vice President Western Region)
People named in this filing
- Jace Tramontin (President)
- Anne Millane (Secretary)
- Carolyn Kurth (Treasurer)
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
To promote and protect the breeding, field training, hunting traditions and best interests of all retriever breeds and those breeds qualified to enter AKC Hunt Tests for Retrievers; and, to promote the interests of amateur owners and trainers who respect the history, traditions and integrity of the sport of purebred hunting retrievers. The MARC conducts an annual invitational hunt test that will promote the use of retrievers as hunting companions by simulating as nearly as possible the conditions met in a true hunting situation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 73% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.2%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.9%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.46; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $135K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.