Michigan Ground Water Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 386092186
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Westerville, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6148987791
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $169,702
- Expenses
- $146,060
- Assets
- $238,641
- Liabilities
- $14,091
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Buddy Sebastian (President)
- Joe Curry (Vice President)
- Dave Schulenberg (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Buddy Sebastian (President)
- Travis Flint (Director)
- Joe Curry (Vice President)
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
To educate our members to provide, protect and promote groundwater as a safe and viable resource.
What it reported doing in 2024
MGWA annually holds a convention where groundwater professionals come together to learn through events, classes, and networking.
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 87% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 18
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 16.1%; rating input score 16
- Program expense ratio: 19.7%; rating input score 20
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.9%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.63; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 28.9% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 16.1% of revenue deployed · 19.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $29K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.