Cable Television Laboratories Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043012897
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2008–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Louisville, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3036619100
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $75,552,254
- Expenses
- $82,233,993
- Assets
- $119,294,810
- Liabilities
- $87,252,837
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
32 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PHIL MCKINNEY (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- PHIL MCKINNEY (PRESIDENT & CEO): $2,690,628 total reported compensation
- BERNARDO HUBERMAN (FELLOW, VP OF NEXT GEN. SYSTEM): $716,858 total reported compensation
- JEFF CHEN (EVP & CHIEF RESEARCH OFFICER): $667,864 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Cablelabs co-innovates unexpected solutions that transform and inspire our industry. We strive to deliver innovations that enable our members to be the provider of choice in their markets.
What it reported doing in 2024
Founded in 1988 by cable operating companies, cable television laboratories, inc. (cablelabs or the company) is a nonprofit innovation and r&d lab that is dedicated to creating and leveraging innovative ideas that significantly impact its cable operator members' business throughout the world by allowing them to be the providers of choice in the markets they serve. Continued on schedule o.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 87% 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: 65
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- 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: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 96.9%; rating input score 97; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: -8.8%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.45; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.73; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $2.7M · 32 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.5M reported
- Consistency: 15 of 17 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2008 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 18 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 12 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.