USA Jigsaw Puzzle Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853751850
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Wrenshall, MN, USA
- Phone
- 5403156270
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recreation& Sports N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $275,048
- Expenses
- $249,161
- Assets
- $340,252
- Liabilities
- $244,505
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALY KRASNY (President)
- VALERIE COIT (Vice President)
- REBECCA TAYLOR (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- ALY KRASNY (President): $3,000 total reported compensation
- VALERIE COIT (Vice President): $3,000 total reported compensation
- REBECCA TAYLOR (Vice President): $3,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our purpose is to create a nationwide community for jigsaw puzzlers, establish a framework for competitive jigsaw puzzling events and acting as the us representative and official liaison with the world jigsaw puzzle federation.
What it reported doing in 2025
Monthly Puzzle Club - approx. 100-150 each month, Monthly Traveling Puzzles - approx. 150 people sign-up each month, USA Jigsaw Nationals in Washington, DC at AwesomCon from April 4-6, 2025 with approximately 1,200 attendees.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 60% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.7%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 91.3%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.4%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.37; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.72; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 55% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.7% of revenue deployed · 91.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $228K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $3K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 44/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.