John Peter Zenger News Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471555495
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Wake Forest, NC, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $12,966
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Todd F Allen (President and Chairman of the)
People named in this filing
- Todd F Allen (President and Chairman of the)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Enterprising, reporting and disseminating news stories and public interest items by print, electronic and all other means.
What it reported doing in 2020
The Foundation has provided technological education to newspapers in NC so they may collaborate. There are now ten (10) newspapers utilizing the information to share content across the state.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
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: 80
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 7th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -25.8% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -44% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -70.5% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 1 of 1 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 10 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2015 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.