Metropolitan Unified Fiber Network Consortium
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462454841
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Madison, WI, USA
- Phone
- 6082664506
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,281,647
- Expenses
- $748,376
- Assets
- $2,256,064
- Liabilities
- $175,903
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- SARAH EDGERTON (CHAIR)
- PAT CHRISTIAN (SECRETARY)
- KIKA BARR (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's mission is to implement a community area network to improve broadband adoption among businesses and residential groups, help spur economic development, improve network connectivity for public safety, education and library entities, as well as expand broadband services to service organizations providing services to disadvantaged, at-risk populations within the community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Mufn is a collaborative metro fiber-optic network serving education, health, government, and non-profit-organization anchor institutions in the madison, middleton, monona, and Oregon wi area. It unifies and augments existing telecom resources to facilitate enhanced internet, point-to-point connectivity, and application sharing. This effort improves broadband access, economic development, public safety, education, and community support programs. - 17 users
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.3%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 81.9%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 41.6%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.01; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 46.3% of revenue deployed · 81.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $613K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.