Michigan Association of Registers of Deeds Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272356642
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Harrisville, MI, USA
- Phone
- 9893174090
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $121,390
- Expenses
- $98,870
- Assets
- $111,982
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRANDON KRAUSE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BRANDON KRAUSE (PRESIDENT)
- PATTY NIEPOTH (1ST VICE PRE)
- LORI MOTT (2ND VICE PRE)
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 educate members about pending legislation, technology, record storage and the preservation of each county's most precious records, those being land records; and to study and initiate ways to preserve and make more easily accessible those records to the people of our counties, the state of Michigan, and the public at large.
What it reported doing in 2025
To study and initiate ways to preserve and make more easily accessible land records to the people of our counties, the state of Michigan, and the public at large.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.5%; rating input score 82
- 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: 18.6%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.13; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.1%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $99K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.