Mice Against Ticks Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831057918
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Lincoln, MA, USA
- Rating
- 34
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $250
- Expenses
- $56,529
- Assets
- $313,408
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Elizabeth S Colt (President)
People named in this filing
- Ana L Martinez (Director)
- Elizabeth S Colt (President)
- Joanna Buchthal (Treasurer and 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Prevent tick-borne diseases by supporting efforts to utilize immune white-footed mice.
What it reported doing in 2024
We generated the first Lyme-immune laboratory mice bred them through multiple generations and began testing them to confirm that their immunity to Lyme disease was heritable.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -22,511.6%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.54; rating input score 85; 85th 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: -40.1% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -37.4% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.