The Montana Stockgrowers Association Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810233155
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Helena, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4064423420
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,051,019
- Expenses
- $1,067,983
- Assets
- $1,567,149
- Liabilities
- $373,023
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN GRANDE (PRESIDENT (THRU DEC 2024))
- LESLEY ROBINSON (PRESIDENT)
- TURK STOVALL (FIRST VICE PRESIDENT)
- MONTY LESH (SECOND VICE PRESIDENT)
- RAYLEE A HONEYCUTT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- RAYLEE A HONEYCUTT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $107,505 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 mission of the Montana stockgrowers association, incorporated is to protect and enhance Montana ranch families' ability to grow and deliver safe, healthy, sustainably produced beef to the world.
What it reported doing in 2024
Conferences, conventions and meetings: the Montana stockgrowers association (msga) is a nonprofit membership organization that has worked on behalf of Montana's cattle ranching families since 1884. The mission of the organization is to protect and enhance Montana ranch families' ability to grow and deliver safe, healthy, environmentally wholesome beef to the world.the organization works to achieve their mission by representing members and the policy they set at the Montana legislature and u.s. Congress, with governmental agencies, in the media, and by promoting the work of Montana's family ranchers to the general public.the annual conference and mid-year meeting is held to set association policy that guides the association through the year. While the main focus of conferences and meetings is for the setting of policy, the meeting is also a networking opportunity for the msga membership.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 92% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.6%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.47; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $108K · 22 people listed
- Consistency: 10 of 11 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.