Illinois Broadcasters Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 376047595
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Springfield, IL, USA
- Phone
- 2177932636
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Media, Communications Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $919,612
- Expenses
- $932,659
- Assets
- $4,608,390
- Liabilities
- $471,645
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
29 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Dennis Lyle (Ex-Officio): $310,507 total reported compensation
- Debra Gray (Marketing Director): $12,207 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To be the leading advocate for the broadcast industry, to shape public policy and to create a positive legislative and regulatory environment for its members, assist its members in continuing industry education, legal support services, and public outreach.
What it reported doing in 2024
NCSA/PEP - The Association has long maintained a Noncommercial Sustaining Announcement/Public Education Partnership Program ("NCSA/PEP Program") through which member and nonmember radio and television stations in Illinois voluntarily donate airtime to the Association so that the airtime can be made available to governmental and not-for-profit entities to achieve state-wide coverage of their activities, events and programs which benefit the public at large. The monies received from such NCSA sponsors are used by the Association for tax-exempt purposes of the organization. The fair market value of the donated airtime could only be estimated. However, it is known that the contract fees received under the NCSA Program represent only a fraction of the fair value of the donated airtime, had that time been sold by the individual stations at their normal commercial rates. Approximately 90 stations participated in these NCSA Programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 77% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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: 61
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 29.4%; rating input score 29; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.4%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.94; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 34.6%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 25 of 25 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $311K · 29 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 12 of 13 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 29/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.