Alaska Telecom Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920066103
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Anchorage, AK, USA
- Phone
- 9075634000
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $868,593
- Expenses
- $810,030
- Assets
- $1,201,427
- Liabilities
- $614,979
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEREMIAH BECKETT (PRESIDENT)
- JOSHUA BEUG (FIRST VICE PRESIDENT)
- ZACH LAYMAN (SECOND VICE PRESIDENT)
- CHRISTINE O'CONNOR (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISTINE O'CONNOR (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $317,670 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote and defend the general welfare of the active members of the association; to furnish its active members with information upon all subjects relating to telecommunications; to advocate for uniformity and efficiency in accounting, operating, maintenance, and construction for supporting the continuance of telecommunication services to the public; to advocate on behalf of its active members before regulatory and legislative bodies; and to engage in those practices generally recognized as being legal and proper for trade associations.
What it reported doing in 2025
Winter conference. Hosted in person on the big island of Hawaii. Consisted of 12 educational sessions relating to current developments in technology and regulatory climate in the telecommunications industry. Attended by 223 people.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% 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: 77
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 41
- 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: 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.7%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.48; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.51; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 39.2%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $318K · 18 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.