Mid Atlantic Bonsai Societies Inc (Mabs)
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133419779
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
- Location
- Newtown Square, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4848781764
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $86,374
- Expenses
- $83,907
- Assets
- $43,868
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
28 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carl Achhammer Jr (President)
- Joseph Matson (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Carl Achhammer Jr (President)
- Joseph Matson (Vice President)
- Karin Simmat (Treasurer)
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
Midatlantic Bonsai Societies Inc (MABS) was created for the sole purpose of producing a public 3-day weekend bonsai festival mid-April of every year to display and teach the art of bonsai through lecture/demonstrations, workshops and bonsai exhibits and critiques. We hire world famous master bonsai artists to give lecture/demonstrations, workshops and critiques. Excess funds are distributed to the 11 sponsoring bonsai societies to fund their continuing efforts in training and educating interested persons in the art of bonsai.
What it reported doing in 2025
3 bonsai workshops each directed by one of the 3 master bonsai artists. Attended by 24 people.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 82% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 16
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 16.5%; rating input score 16
- Program expense ratio: 17%; rating input score 17
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.9%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 16.5% of revenue deployed · 17% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $14K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 28 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 1 filing year from 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.