Davis Media Access
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 680169922
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Davis, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5307572419
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Television
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $483,763
- Expenses
- $458,574
- Assets
- $814,368
- Liabilities
- $251,444
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AUTUMN LABBE-RENAULT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- AUTUMN LABBE-RENAULT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $82,742 total reported compensation
- Darrick Servis (Director of Operations): $68,427 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Using Public and Educational Access TV, Low-Power radio, and partnerships countywide, Davis Media Access (DMA) works to connect and inform our region, increasing awareness and civic participation.
What it reported doing in 2024
Through public and government access channels on the Comcast system in Davis; community radio station KDRT, and robust social media outlets, DMA airs and archives public meetings, providing transparency. We produce local election coverage, covering races from school board through Congress, as well as local ballot measures. We work with schools, municipalities, businesses, musicians, venues, youth and non-profits. We have a particular emphasis on youth, offering summer camps, broadcast training, and internship opportunities. We help other non-profits build capacity by helping them get the word out, highlighting their events, and by providing low-cost access to media services. We document community events and social movements, ensuring that a wide variety of voices and perspectives are heard. Program expenses cover operational expenses for both TV channels, the radio station, and various streaming services and licenses.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 72% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% 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 most voting board members are independent. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.5%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 67%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.2%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.78; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 33%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.5% of revenue deployed · 67% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $307K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $83K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.