Indiana Rural Broadband Association
Legal name: Indiana Exchange Carrier Associationinc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 900244591
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Tell City, IN, USA
- Phone
- 8125498446
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $294,065
- Expenses
- $257,217
- Assets
- $125,298
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES DAUBY (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JAMES DAUBY (PRESIDENT): $103,173 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
INRBA is committed to assisting Rural Broadband Telecommunication Companies throughout the state of Indiana. Our mission is to champion for our members and to help them to continue to provide services in areas where it is essential to have reliable and accessible telecommunications. TRANSFORMING RURAL BROADBAND Who We Serve Indiana Rural BroadBand Association Serves Rural Telecommunication Companies INRBA is committed to assisting Rural Broadband Telecommunication Companies throughout the state of Indiana. We are dedicated to helping them provide state-of-art services to the communities they serve. Our Mission We Advocate For Members Our mission is to champion for our members and to help them to continue to provide services in areas where it is essential to have reliable and accessible telecommunications. Our Goals We Use Our Expertise To Promote Rural Telecommunication Services...
What it reported doing in 2025
Carrier contract negotiation: ineca members' networks are connected to other telecommunication carrier networks. Ineca serves as a single point of contact to negotiate and develop the terms for the interconnection of its members and others.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 88% 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: 90
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 12.5%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 40.1%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $103K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 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: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.