Agricultural Communicators Network
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 236391604
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Lagrange, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7068459085
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $149,243
- Expenses
- $140,941
- Assets
- $117,473
- Liabilities
- $33,683
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAM CARAWAY (PRESIDENT)
- JOY CROSBY (PRESIDENT EL)
People named in this filing
- PAM CARAWAY (PRESIDENT)
- JOY CROSBY (PRESIDENT EL)
- MARTHA MINTZ (PAST PRESIDE)
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
Acn serves as a forum for an open exchange of ideas among colleagues in an environment that fosters professional excellence. Tradition has kept the association strong since 1921 and its culture defines its niche - the editors, writers, photographers, and other communication professionals serving america's agribusiness professionals and rural lifestyle enthusiasts. Today, acn's purpose stands as testament to the vision, courage, and determination of the small group of farm magazine editors who founded the organization - to provide a forum that allows professionals to share and exchange ideas, issues, and goals with their colleagues while offering opportunities for professional development.
What it reported doing in 2024
Acn provides approximately 500 members with a forum for professional inprovement and creates an opportunity for agricultural editors & other agricultural communicators to share ideas and discuss their profession.
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 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.6%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 71.6%; rating input score 72
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.6%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.2% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10.8% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.6% of revenue deployed · 71.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $101K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.