Midwest Biosolids Association Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920793911
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Springfield, IL, USA
- Phone
- 2175232208
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $160,683
- Expenses
- $128,395
- Assets
- $113,733
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Albert Cox (President)
- John Norton (Vice President)
- Mohammed Haque (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Albert Cox (President)
- John Norton (Vice President)
- Stacia Eckenwiler (Secretary)
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
The Midwest Biosolids Association (MBA), Inc., is a non-profit, non-partisan association whose mission is to: (a) Promote environmentally sound management of biosolids and residuals. (b) Foster cooperation among the association members, governmental agencies, private corporations, other associations and the general public in the management of biosolids. and (c) Promote research and share results, technical and general information about biosolids and the benefits of organics recycling with interested parties.
What it reported doing in 2025
MBA holds an annual conference with technical presentations on biosolids. The 2nd annual conference was held at The Ohio State University in May.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 67% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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
SUPPORTED - 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: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 42.3%; rating input score 42
- Program expense ratio: 53%; rating input score 53
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.1%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.89; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 38.9%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 115.1% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 36.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 42.3% of revenue deployed · 53% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $68K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 42/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.