Energy Telecommunications and Elect Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 720373123
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Irving, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8885038700
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $495,886
- Expenses
- $527,694
- Assets
- $145,897
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JONATHAN SHAWHART (Vice President)
- BILLY HAYES (President)
- DOUG MILLER (Vice President)
- JOSHUA STOCKTON (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- JONATHAN SHAWHART (Vice President)
- RICHARD C NATION (Treasurer)
- SUZZETTE RAINEY (Director)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Through its annual conference entelec advances technology in the telecommunications industry. The association actively promotes, education, safety, training abd student development of its 130 member companies and 1,500 conference attendees. Over 100 vendors participate each year. Additionally, entelec publishes and annual volume of technical papers on cd-rom.
What it reported doing in 2025
Through its annual conference entelec advances technology in the telecommunications industry. The association actively promotes education, safety, training and student development of its 130 member companies and 1,500 conference attendees. Over 100 vendors participate each year. Additionally, entelec publishes and annual volume of technical papers on cd-rom.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.8%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 91.9%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.4%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.8% of revenue deployed · 91.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 14 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $485K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed
- Consistency: 15 of 15 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2025
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.