Maritime Institute of Technology and Graduate Studies (MITAGS)
Legal name: Mitags Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861588522
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Linthicum Heights, MD, US
- Phone
- (866) 925-4818
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Job Training
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,191,326
- Expenses
- $7,645,739
- Assets
- $2,582,753
- Liabilities
- $3,413,944
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MR DONALD JOSBERGER (PRESIDENT-TRUSTEE)
- CAPT JOHN SULLIVAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MR ERIC FRIEND (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MR DONALD JOSBERGER (PRESIDENT-TRUSTEE): $339,313 total reported compensation
- MR LARS TURNER (TREASURER): $260,379 total reported compensation
- MR ERIC FRIEND (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $242,629 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
MITAGS is a non-profit vocational training center for individuals seeking to enter the maritime profession and for professional mariners seeking to advance their careers. We focus on providing the highest quality training using effective technologies and teaching techniques so that our students have the knowledge and skills to succeed in today’s merchant marine.
What it reported doing in 2024
International longshoremen's association (ila)mitags provides high-quality maritime training programs to the members of ila. Ila is the largest union of maritime workers in north america, representing upwards of 70,000 longshoremen on the atlantic and gulf coasts, great lakes, major u.s. Rivers, puerto rico and eastern canada.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 62
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.3%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.32; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.6%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.6% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 14 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 4 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $7.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $339K · 5 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.