Community Television of Knoxville
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 621207969
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023
- Location
- Knoxville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 8652158848
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $873,698
- Expenses
- $846,081
- Assets
- $1,262,194
- Liabilities
- $22,393
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- PAIGE TRAVIS (CHAIR)
- STEPHANIE BREWER-COOK (SECRETARY/TREASURER)
- SARAH ADKINS (AT LARGE)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Community access television
What it reported doing in 2023
Community television of knoxville is a public access television station
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 97% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.6%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 70.6%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.2%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.49; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.6% of revenue deployed · 70.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $597K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 22 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D revenue reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.