Ms Electronic Security Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 550889802
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Byram, MS, USA
- Phone
- 6013721491
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $134,402
- Expenses
- $132,210
- Assets
- $78,026
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHELLEY PETTIT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- LAN FRATESI (REGION II VICE PRESIDENT)
- HUNTER GRIFFIN (REGION III VICE PRESIDENT)
- JOSH TRIM (REGION IV VICE PRESIDENT)
- MATTHEW FEATHERS (REGION IV VICE PRESIDENT)
- JACK TORRENCE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SHELLEY PETTIT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- CLIF KING (TREASURER)
- SETH HOOD (ASSOCIATE BOARD MEMBER)
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
Promote and provide education relating to the alarm industry
What it reported doing in 2025
Conference and training to educate members in the alarm industry
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 41.5%; rating input score 42
- Program expense ratio: 42.2%; rating input score 42
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.6%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.59; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.2%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 41.5% of revenue deployed · 42.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $56K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.