Beech Street Communications Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 710659011
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020
- Location
- Texarkana, AR, USA
- Phone
- 8707743500
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $123,291
- Expenses
- $187,840
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- DONALD E WALKER JR (EXECUTIVE DI): $48,461 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Part i, line 1, part iii, line 1 klfi - tv 35 was established in 1988 with the express purpose of bringing family programming to the people of texarkana and the surrounding area. The goal of the station was not only to bring religious broadcasting to the area, but to also focus on the positive activities that are occurring in our town. Our goal is to be part of our community by providing g-rated programming from the walk network along with special events in our area including high school sports, outdoor sports, parades, local talk shows and informational programs including health programs, how-to programs and national news with a slant toward the christian household.
What it reported doing in 2020
On air programming services-klfi-tv produces and broadcasts several programs that total over 60 hours of broadcast time each week. One service a week of beech street first baptist church are broadcast on cable one (channel 10), and to the rest of the surrounding area by way of our low power class a broadcast uhf channel 35. In addition, each service is rebroadcast three times each week. We also produce "table talk" that is a local events program promoting civic and charitable organizations as well as other events popular to our area. Each week during football season we take our production trailer and fifteen volunteers and tape a local high school game to replay three times each week. We also tape and broadcast special community wide events. In addition to the above mentioned items, we also air city council meetings for both texarkana, Texas and texarkana, Arkansas, church services for moores lane first baptist church and northern hills baptist church. The combined program services listed has allowed us to achieve our purpose of promoting the message of christ to the community, as well as, to provide balanced coverage of community events in texarkana.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 61% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 74% for direct work, and 26% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 5
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- 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; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Scored; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -52.4%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.8%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $188K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $48K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and related organizations
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.