Minnesota Logger Education Program
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411816770
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Duluth, MN, USA
- Phone
- 2188795633
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Adult, Continuing Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $353,819
- Expenses
- $300,048
- Assets
- $482,680
- Liabilities
- $14,238
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSH HULL (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DAVID A NOLLE (EXECUTIVE DI): $98,610 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Minnesota logger education program (mlep) develops and coordinates educational programs and resources for loggers. These educational activities focus on safety, sustainable forest management, transportation, business management, and provide loggers with tools to ensure safe, protective, efficient and evironmentally responsible timber harvests.
What it reported doing in 2025
Mlep identifies, designs, and delivers continuing education programming in the areas of sustainable forest management, business management, transportation, and safety.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 60% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.3%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 82.5%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.2%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.61; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32.9%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.3% of revenue deployed · 82.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $247K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $99K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.