Hoptown Chronicle
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841736647
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2022
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Hopkinsville, KY, USA
- Phone
- 2704841145
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $43,918
- Expenses
- $50,840
- Assets
- $39,134
- Liabilities
- $2,297
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JIM CREIGHTON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JENNIFER BROWN (DIRECTOR)
- JIM CREIGHTON (PRESIDENT)
- GWENDA MOTLEY (TREASURER)
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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To engage in increasing public awareness and understanding of important issues facing the citizens of hopkinsville and at times surrounding communities, through reliable, in-depth, fair and solutions oriented journalistic reporting essential to the engagement of hopkisnville citizens. To raise awareness of business, arts, culture and history unique to downtown hopkinsville: to help preserve democracy and educate the public through such reporting; to engage professional journalists and others in public service work; towork collaboratively in sharing the resulting work; to identify and address issues in more impactful ways than private sector news mediacan and will do in a changing news media environment; to educate citizens about the Kentucky open meetings and open records acts and the freedom of information act as essential tools to ensuring open and transparent government operations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
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: -15.8%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 20.4% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2020 to 2022
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.