Wisconsin Honey Producers Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
390872652
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Watertown, WI, USA
Phone
9202858607
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$62,960
Expenses
$69,506
Assets
$67,322
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TRACY MALTERER (PRESIDENT)
  • JAMES HILLEMEYER (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • NICK THILL (PAST PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • STEPHANIE SLATER (DIRECTOR)
  • ELIZABETH RENSTROM (DIRECTOR)
  • DOUG KOLTERMANN (DIRECTOR)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The purpose of this organization is to form a strong bond and fellowhsip among commercial and small-scale honey producers to effectively: (1) protect the honey producing industry of Wisconsin from policies and environmental changes that will negatively affect honey production (2) improve the marketing of honey and bee products by supporting and promoting the honey queen program, advertising and scientific developments beneficial to honey producers and the industry (2) support and promote educational programs by disseminating scientific developments and by sharing knowledge among members (4) support and promote educational programs aimed at public acceptance of the honey bee in our environment

What it reported doing in 2024

Honey education

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 80% 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: 82
  • Sustainability: 42
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -10.4%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.97; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.