Michigan Environmental Health Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382529021
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Lansing, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2693310429
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $134,883
- Expenses
- $149,200
- Assets
- $248,130
- Liabilities
- $6,779
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEN BOWEN (PRESIDENT EL)
- DEREK HLADKI (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KEN BOWEN (PRESIDENT EL)
- BRIAN ESPARSA (DIRECTOR AT)
- FAITH GUENTHARDT (SOUTHEAST DI)
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
To promote the canon of ethics and code of conduct, uphold the constitution, the bylaws, and follow the policies and procedures of meha. To promote the objectives of the national environmental health association, the international association for food protection, and other associations beneficial to the membership. To promote the recognition and status of the environmental health professional through advocating the registration/licensing of its members in their respective disciplines, and through other appropriate means. To provide meha members with a forum for the exchange of information and the discussion and study of environmental health issues. To provide the general public, industry, and private sector with a source of information regarding environmental concerns.
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide grant funding for four regional food safety training events and scholarships to college students studying environmental science. These events benefited over 100 environmental health professionals directly and the general public indirectly.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 72% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 81% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.7%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 84%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.67 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 84.7%; rating input score 85; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.6%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.66; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.7% of revenue deployed · 84% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $125K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 20 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.