Coleman County Telephone Cooperative Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
750894391
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2013
Forms available
Form 990 2013
Location
Santa Anna, TX, USA
Phone
3253483124
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Telecommunications

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,822,715
Expenses
$4,798,434
Assets
$21,840,118
Liabilities
$15,408,642

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • STANLEY HARTMAN (PRESIDENT)
  • JOHN HENSLEY (VICE-PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • TIM J HUMPERT (GM & CFO): $147,110 total reported compensation
  • RICKEY ADAMS (DIRECTOR): $30,793 total reported compensation
  • STANLEY HARTMAN (PRESIDENT): $22,227 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The cooperative's aim is to provide excellent and innovative customer service as reflected in top quality telecommunications service reliability, affordable rates, employee teamwork and the highest degree of integrity in all cooperative endeavors.

What it reported doing in 2013

The cooperative provided local telephone exchange service and other telecommunications services to 1,739 subscriber access lines at year end. All members were served at cost on a cooperative basis.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 99% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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: 100
  • Accountability: 77
  • Sustainability: 50
  • 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; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.5%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.55; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.71; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.1%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $147K · 8 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $4.4M reported
  • Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes related organizations
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2010 to 2013
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 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.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 45/100.