Ncf Transition Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 381319574
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2013, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Traverse City, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2319474230
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $177,500
- Expenses
- $151,261
- Assets
- $32,740
- Liabilities
- $6,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MAX ANDERSON (PRESIDENT)
- KELLI MENGEBIER (PRESIDENT ELECT)
- MIKE MEINDERTSMA (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JESSICA ALPERS (BOARD MEMBER)
- KEVIN SEVERT (BOARD MEMBER)
- PEG JONKOFF (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
To celebrate and promote cherries, tourism and community involvement.
What it reported doing in 2025
To benefit the national cherry festival, which celebrates and promotes cherries, tourism and community involvement.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 84% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.5%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 86.3%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.8%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 48.2% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -23% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -37.7% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.5% of revenue deployed · 86.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $131K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.