Michigan Snowmobile Education and Advancement Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202798484
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Grand Rapids, MI, USA
- Phone
- 6163612285
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $-17,798
- Expenses
- $25,281
- Assets
- $163,686
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAT PETERSON (PRESIDENT)
- JOHN GRIFFIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- KAREN MIDDENDORP (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- PAT PETERSON (PRESIDENT)
- JOHN GRIFFIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JIM DICKIE (TREASURERSECRETARY)
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 develop a common appreciation and knowledge of snowmobiling in Michigan.
What it reported doing in 2024
To develop a common appreciation and knowledge of snowmobiling in Michigan
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 58% for direct work, and 42% for grants.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 12
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 87.4%; rating input score 87
- 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: Limited
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -242%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.47; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -50.9% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $22K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.