Wisconsin Crop Improvement Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 390711407
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Middleton, WI, USA
- Phone
- 6082621341
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $591,772
- Expenses
- $521,193
- Assets
- $1,189,921
- Liabilities
- $718,798
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JACK KALTENBERG (PRESIDENT)
- JEFF SPANGLER (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SHAMINDER MIRANPURI (GENERAL MANAGER): $95,239 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 Wisconsin crop improvement association 1) encourages production and promotes the use of high-grade planting stock, 2) cooperates with the Wisconsin department of agriculture and the university of Wisconsin college of agricultural and life sciences in carrying on and supporting a certification service, 3) promotes and encourages more efficient, scientific and profitable crop production in Wisconsin, 4) develops, increases, processes, distributes and markets planting stock, and 5) assists the seed industry with production, variety research and selection and promotion for the betterment of conditions in the industry, upgrading their products and development of a higher degree of farming efficiency.
What it reported doing in 2024
Certification - the Wisconsin seed certification program consists of the verification of seed genetic identity, seed testing, promotion of certified seed, and sales of supplies to producers of certified seed.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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: 79
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.9%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.28; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.6; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.3%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $95K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.