Minnesota Milk Producers Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
411469481
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Green Bay, WI, USA
Phone
3204294838
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Boards of Trade

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$460,337
Expenses
$517,545
Assets
$444,943
Liabilities
$60,545

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • GARRETT LUTHENS (PRESIDENT)
  • ANTHONY ANDERSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • SHELLY DEPESTEL (VICE PRESIDENT LEFT DURING THE YEAR)
  • LUCAS SJOSTROM (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • GARRETT LUTHENS (PRESIDENT): $4,225 total reported compensation
  • ANTHONY ANDERSON (VICE PRESIDENT): $2,000 total reported compensation
  • TOM WALSH (SECRETARY): $2,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To advance the success of Minnesota dairy farms by lobbying at the state and federal legislatures for laws that stabilize wholesale milk or producer pricing and/or pertain to milk products.

What it reported doing in 2025

Membership recruitment and benefits - providing membership benefits and scholarships to Minnesota dairy farms.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 79% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

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: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 43
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 84.8%; rating input score 85; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 33.3%; rating input score 33; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • 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: -12.4%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.5%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -17.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -9.1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 2 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $4K · 9 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $264K reported
  • Consistency: 9 of 10 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 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.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 33/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.