Winchester Arms Collectors Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810370621
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Lakeville, MA, USA
- Phone
- 406-285-3722
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $314,986
- Expenses
- $264,170
- Assets
- $722,289
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARTIN VINNY (President)
Highest reported compensation
- MARTIN HEATHER (EXEC SECRETARY): $52,831 total reported compensation
- DUNBAR BRAD (EDITOR): $36,044 total reported compensation
- MARTIN VINNY (President): $19,849 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Winchester Arms Collectors Association (WACA) is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt corporation with a worldwide membership of over 3,000 individuals. Our members are devoted to the preservation, understanding and collecting of Winchester firearms and related products as well as the role these products had in forging America’s heritage.
What it reported doing in 2025
The awards banquet for recognition and education of the public as well as attendance s at meeting for promotion of awareness of our association to other groups.
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 97% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.1%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 61.2%; rating input score 61
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- 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: 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.1%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.73; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 43.7%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 56.1% of revenue deployed · 61.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $162K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $53K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.