Alamo Public Telecommunications Council Doing Business as Klrn
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742461534
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2102709000
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Television
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,673,932
- Expenses
- $5,725,086
- Assets
- $10,788,632
- Liabilities
- $1,346,416
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
32 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ARTHUR ROJAS EMERSON (President & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ARTHUR ROJAS EMERSON (President & CEO): $166,329 total reported compensation
- PATRICK LOPEZ (EXEC VP & CFO): $161,554 total reported compensation
- LAUREN ESQUIVEL (VP ADVANCEMENT.): $98,027 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 MISSION OF KLRN IS TO open a world of lifelong learning through trustworthy and enriching programs on-air, online and in our community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Programming: alamo public telecommunications council operates klrn, the public television station serving san antonio and south central Texas. Klrn serves a diverse audience of all ages by offering quality public media programming on four digital television channels:1. Klrn - san antonio pbs, pbs kids and pbs kids go.2. World - special repeat programs and news and public affairs programs.3. Pbs kids - a 24-7 kids channel with pbs kids programming.4. Create - lifestyle programs, including cooking, painting, sewing, travel and more.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 93
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.9%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 72.7%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.42 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 96.4%; rating input score 96; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.4%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.88; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.7%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.9% of revenue deployed · 72.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 27 of 28 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $166K · 32 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $320K reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 28/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.