Corporation for Educational Radio and Television

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
133237110
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2015
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2015
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
2122880655
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Culture, and Humanities

Reported finances

Revenue
$36,282
Expenses
$46,460
Assets
$12,185
Liabilities
$10,288

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ZACH RICHTER (PRESIDENT/TREASURER)

People named in this filing

  • ZACH RICHTER (PRESIDENT/TREASURER)
  • ROBERT CLIFT (VICE PRES/ASST TREASURER)
  • MATT GUSCHWAN (VICE PRES/SECRETARY)

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 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Produce documentaries for educational use and aid producers in the production of documentaries.

What it reported doing in 2015

In america, a kid ages out of foster care every 23 minutes. What if they didn't? Cert continues research for the documentary, unconditional love, a 60-minute documentary that interweaves the compelling stories of five teens from foster care and how they were matched with the loving families who adopted them.showing what works, the documentary also highlights organizations around the country with successful strategies in finding adoptive parents for foster care youth.teens in foster care are the hardest to be placed for adoption and risk joining the 20,800 youth per year who age out of the system. Many of these 18- and 21-year-olds that leave foster care face negative outcomes such as homelessness, crime, drugs or pregnancy. As a society, we have failed these youth. The single factor most closely associated with positive outcomes is a meaningful, lifelong connection to a family.these grim statistics point to an urgency in foster care adoption. Unconditional love provides viewers with an understanding of what life is like as a teenager in foster care and how adoption can dramatically change the trajectories of those who find their "forever family."the documentary takes viewers to cities such as santa fe, New Mexico; tampa, Florida; brooklyn, New York; grand rapids, Michigan; los angeles, California, and st. Louis, Missouri.clarence page, pulitzer prize-winning columnist from the chicago tribune, serves as reporter and writer. Mr. Page was adopted at birth, which he says has given him a very personal appreciation for those who help today's foster children to find loving parents.the documentary will be ready for national telecast over the public broadcasting service (pbs) in the fall of 2018.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 94
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 16
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 82.9%; rating input score 83

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: -28.1%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.84; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.6%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -36.7% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -46.2% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -14.8% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 82.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $39K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2014 to 2015
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.