New England Mountain Bike Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043068072
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Acton, MA, USA
- Phone
- 8005763622
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recreational l Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,347,159
- Expenses
- $1,117,827
- Assets
- $1,804,317
- Liabilities
- $200,073
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
74 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NICOLE FREEDMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- ADAM GLICK (PRESIDENT)
- MATT SCHULDE (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- NICOLE FREEDMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $137,697 total reported compensation
- MICK FERRARO (MEMBERSHIP & OUTREACH DIRECTOR): $70,829 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, educational, scientific, and literary purposes including, without limitation:1. To educate mountain bicyclists on how to be safe, responsible and environmentally sensitive trail users;2. To act as an interface between the mountain bicycling community, other outdoor organizations, land managers, and public agencies while advocating for continued land access;3. To encourage and sponsor trail maintenance and clean-up efforts on lands used by mountain bicyclists;4. To provide a network within the moutain bicycling community for disseminating information regarding land access issues, trail policies, group recreational rides, workshops, and other events;5. To preserve open space for conservation and recreational purposes; and6. To promote mountain biking opportunities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Education through newsletter publication and mailing with membership information and dues letters.
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 91% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.9%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 88.4%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $20 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.61; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.7%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.9% of revenue deployed · 88.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 40 of 40 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $988K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $138K · 74 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.