Montana Urban and Community Forestry Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813600832
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Kalispell, MT, USA
- Phone
- 0000000000
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Beautification and Aesthetics
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $108,571
- Expenses
- $109,039
- Assets
- $58,250
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kelly Franklin (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Patrick Plantenberg (Interim Chair)
- Kelly Franklin (Executive Director)
- Scott Meyers (Webmaster)
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
MUCFA is a 501 C 3 organization with a purpose to 1 promote and encourage urban forestry public awareness education and volunteerism 2 Assist and advise the MT Department of Natural Resources and Conservation on their Urban Community Forestry program 3 Cultivate cooperation among agencies groups and individuals and advise the people of Montana and local state and federal officials on urban forestry issues and concerns 4 Facilitate and promote planting maintenance and management of trees in municipalities and counties within Montana according to industry standards and 5 Solicit funds for and promote association projects and activities MUCFAs mission is to encourage and promote the management expansion and improvement of community forestry programs for the benefits of the citizens of Montana
What it reported doing in 2025
0
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.4%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.5%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -99.7% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.3% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.