Interbel Telephone Cooperative Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 816013157
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Eureka, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4068893311
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,429,765
- Expenses
- $16,429,765
- Assets
- $50,225,535
- Liabilities
- $24,729,520
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHALE HEDGES (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- CRAIG EATON (BOARD VICE PRESIDENT)
- JASON MOOTHART (GM/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JASON MOOTHART (GM/CEO): $274,780 total reported compensation
- KEVIN HODIK (CFO): $237,363 total reported compensation
- TROY UNREIN (OSP SUPERVISOR): $203,676 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide to our communities the highest quality, state-of-the-art communications related products and services at affordable rates; provide an enjoyable and beneficial work environment; and otherwise improve the quality of life in our communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Interbel telephone cooperative, inc. Continues to provide basic phone service and high speed internet access, specifically focusing on supplying fiber optic internet services to the homes and businesses, in addition to supplying other various telecommunication services (unified communications as a service).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% 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: 64
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 4th 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: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 58.8%; rating input score 59; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.06; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.49; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.6%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $275K · 12 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $6.3M reported
- Consistency: 12 of 13 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.