Mulch and Soil Council Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237155715
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Shallowater, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8068321810
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $915,471
- Expenses
- $722,250
- Assets
- $1,136,560
- Liabilities
- $316,564
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JIM WEBER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JIM WEBER (PRESIDENT)
- BYRON MORGAN (VICE PRESIDE)
- JESSICA BAIN (SECRETARY/TR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mulch and soil council was formed to further and promote the general business interests of the mulch and soil producers industry through publicity and public relations.
What it reported doing in 2024
Meetings-annual meeting and board of director's meetings to discuss organization activities and to provide information related to the mulch and soil 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 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.8%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 70.4%; rating input score 70
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.1%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.57; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 52.8% of revenue deployed · 70.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.