Abc Television Affiliates Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 520817941
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Raleigh, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9197147411
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,059,644
- Expenses
- $755,157
- Assets
- $9,751,847
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEAN LITTLETON (CHAIR/PRESIDENT)
- MIKE MEARA (IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR/PAST PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DEAN LITTLETON (CHAIR/PRESIDENT)
- TEDDIE GIBBON (SMALL MARKET GOVERNOR)
- BRAD RAMSEY (TREASURER & AT-LARGE GOVERNOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See part i, line 1 and schedule o
What it reported doing in 2024
Advance interests of abc affiliates before the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.
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: 93
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 95
- Growth: 60
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 75.3%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.91; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $432K reported
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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: 2 of 7 not reported.