Montana Nurses Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810171152
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Clancy, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4064426710
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,465,832
- Expenses
- $1,764,333
- Assets
- $1,868,691
- Liabilities
- $918,990
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- VICKY BYRD (CEO)
- ANNA AMMONS (President)
- LAURIE MCKINNEY (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- VICKY BYRD (CEO): $141,680 total reported compensation
- BRANDI DEARING (CFO): $78,213 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Montana nurses association (mna) promotes professional nursing practices, standards, and education; respresents professional nurses; and provides nursing leadership in promoting high quality health care.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Montana nurses association (mna) promotes professional nursing practices, standards, education, and leadership in its general operating activities by providing continuing education for member nurses, and conventions and meetings.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 83% 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.6%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 66.9%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -20.4%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.49; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.5%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 44.6% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.6% of revenue deployed · 66.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $142K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.