IRTS Foundation

Legal name: International Radio and Television Society Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 136149966
IRS 990 coverage: 2015–2024
Official website data refreshed: Sep 2026
Forms available: Form 990 2024
Location: New York, NY, USA
Phone: 212-867-6650
Rating: 78
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Professional Societies, Associations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue: $1,167,167
Expenses: $1,295,090
Assets: $1,647,285
Liabilities: $108,163

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

78 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

JOYCE TUDRYN (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

JOYCE TUDRYN (PRESIDENT): $406,883 total reported compensation
MARILYN ELLIS (VP PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION): $169,980 total reported compensation
LAUREN KRUK-WINOKUR (VP ACADEMIC PROGRAMS): $169,648 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Building Future Media Leaders

What it reported doing in 2024

Faculty seminarirts faculty seminars provide a forum for university educators and career service professionals from across the nation to meet with top media professionals in order to understand the sweeping changes taking place in our industry, as well as where the greatest opportunities exist for their students. This allows educators to teach in a more timely and relevant way. For more than five decades these seminars have provided a level playing field where professors from schools that vary in size, wealth, reputation, and approach all have an opportunity to hear from those at the forefront of our industry. The theme of the 2024 program was media insiders: today's opportunities and tomorrow's challenges.

Operating model

Revenue model: Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model: Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 75% for direct work, and 25% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 69
Transparency & Controls: 87
Accountability: 90
Sustainability: 28
Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 78.2%; rating input score 78
Program expense ratio: 69.5%; rating input score 70
Fundraising efficiency: $5.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
Foreign activity oversight: Limited
Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

Independent voting board: 98.7%; rating input score 99; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

Operating margin: -11%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.27; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 57.6%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
Where the money goes: 78.2% of revenue deployed · 69.5% of spending went to programs
Governance: 75 of 76 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $900K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $407K · 78 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
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.
Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 22/100.
High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.