Apple Country Radio Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834446086
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Brookfield, MA, USA
- Phone
- 4134360441
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,036
- Expenses
- $6,992
- Assets
- $8,148
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sharon Mahoney (President, Treasurer, Director)
People named in this filing
- Sharon Mahoney (President, Treasurer, Director)
- Kevin Erkkila (Clerk, 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To carry out educational and charitable activities via radio, print, video and online; to establish, build, maintain and operate a volunteer-based, noncommercial, community broadcast radio station in the town of Brookfield, Massachusetts, in compliance with Federal Communications Commission regulations and Massachusetts General Law; to develop, produce and broadcast a variety of educational, cultural and public service programs for the benefit of Brookfield and surrounding communities; to make broadcast air time available and to offer education and resources to residents of Brookfield and the general public in and for the production of and dissemination of community-based media; to provide residents of Brookfield and the surrounding communities with information and instructions from local public safety agencies in the event of emergencies or disasters; and to use its assets to promote community education, cohesion, partnership and development.
What it reported doing in 2025
Broadcasting a complete schedule of programming at 98.1FM for Brookfield and all or substantial portions of surrounding towns, including West Brookfield, East Brookfield, North Brookfield, Spencer, and portions of Sturbridge, Warren and Ware, for a listening audience of approximately 13,657 households as determined by the U.S. 2020 Census. Program service expenses include studio space maintenance and operational expenses, including utilities, music licensing fees and software updates.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 47
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40.1%; rating input score 40
- Program expense ratio: 57.6%; rating input score 58
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.3%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.17; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.8% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 40.6% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 40.1% of revenue deployed · 57.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 40/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.