Muskies Inc Twin Cities Chapter 1

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
331038115
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Bloomington, MN, USA
Phone
6127086851
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Wildlife Preservation, Protection

Reported finances

Revenue
$244,895
Expenses
$251,769
Assets
$289,993
Liabilities
$5,252

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JIM DOYLE (President)
  • CASEY FRISKNEY (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • JIM DOYLE (President)
  • CASEY FRISKNEY (Vice President)
  • Bryan Thompson (Secretary)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

For the promotion and protection of a high quality muskellunge sport fishery. We will accomplish this by supporting conservation practices, especially catch and release, and research based on sound scientific merit, and carried out by authorized federal or state agencies, appropriate academic institutions, muskies inc. Chapters and their members. We are committed to the abatement of water pollution, maintenance of records for muskie habitats, growth and range, and the dissemination of muskie information, as well as muskie fishing by youth

What it reported doing in 2025

SPORTSMANS BANQUET -The banquet, with over $20,000 in prizes, helps fund our chapters stocking and project goals as well as several other chapter functions. Join us at the banquet and you could go home with a fishing trip with a noted guide, a resort stay on a premier US or Canadian muskie lake, a new rod, reel, tackle box, a custom painted one-of-a-kind lure, a print for your walls, or one of the many other outdoor gear found as prizes at raffle tables, games and silent auctions. Vets Home Opener-Residents of the Minnesota Veterans Home are treated to a day of fishing and a fresh cooked shore lunch. A trout pond is erected at the home and residents can come out and try their luck catching lunch. The fish are cleaned and cooked and served to all who participate. If you havent ever been to the fishing opener at the Vets Home, youve really been missing out. Its a great time for all. Volunteer to help the residents land their fish or to serve the shore lunch. ARMED FORCES FAMILY FISHING CELEBRATION - The Armed Forces Family Fishing Celebration is a collaboration with Fishing for Life. Military kids and adults with connections to the military enjoy a morning of fishing out on Lake Minnetonka and from the docks. Help get the people on fish (multi-species) and safely bring everyone back to the dock. Enjoy the awards program and a delicious lunch. Youth includes sponsoring fishing programs, scout merit badges, etc. -SECTIONAL QUALIFIER FOR THE MINNESOTA STATE HIGH SCHOOL TOURNAMENT -Open to students in grades 7-12 from metro-area schools. Each Muskies, Inc. chapter throughout the state can hold a qualifier. The Twin Cities chapter in-person qualifier is in June. Students can also qualify in virtual qualifiers. The top two teams from qualifiers will represent the chapter in the state High School Muskie Tournament in August on Lake Vermilion. Fisheries includes money Dept. of Natural Resources for stocking, minnows, and enhancement of lakes, rivers, etc. It could also include river clean up participation, etc. Purchased $75,000 of Muskies to be stocked into various MN lakes. Research includes money spent to sponsor or help pay for your own or others research projects and related sponsorships, etc. Membership Development includes programs to attract or maintain new and current chapter members or promotional activities Other would be anything other than the above. It might include helping other chapters or non-Muskie related organizations, etc.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 76% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 53% for direct work, and 47% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 98
  • Transparency & Controls: 69
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 97.4%; rating input score 97
  • Fundraising efficiency: $364.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 36%; rating input score 36; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -2.8%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $245K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 19 of 21 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 3 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 36/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.