Wisconsin Automatic Merchandising Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 993160707
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Cottage Grove, WI, USA
- Phone
- 6082769800
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $34,313
- Expenses
- $248
- Assets
- $34,065
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MIKE SWANSON (PRESIDENT)
- RICK PAVLIC (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MIKE SWANSON (PRESIDENT)
- RICK PAVLIC (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JOE EGGENER (SECRETARY)
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
The Wisconsin automatic merchandising association (wama) serves as the voice for Wisconsin's convenience, vending and food service companies, working to ensure a favorable business environment for the industry within the state. Wama is involved with lobbying efforts, focusing on regulations, taxes, and promoting coin-operated food/beverage services in Wisconsin.
What it reported doing in 2025
Wama focuses on advocacy by lobbying on tax and regulatory issues affecting vending machine operators, provides industry support by representing businesses involved with vending, micro-markets, and office coffee service and provides information, events and resources for members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 38
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 91
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0.7%; rating input score 1
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 99.3%; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 137.36; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 0.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $248 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.