News Leaders Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
540649704
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2023
Forms available
Form 990 2023
Location
Columbia, MO, USA
Phone
2029640912
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Business and Industry

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$0
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

18 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MANNY GARCIA (PAST PRESIDENT)
  • ROBYN TOMLIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • ALISON GERBER (PRESIDENT)
  • MYRIAM MARQUEZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • MANNY GARCIA (PAST PRESIDENT)
  • MANDY JENKINS (DIRECTOR)
  • BRIAN MCGRORY (DIRECTOR)

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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of the news leaders association (nla) is to provide support and training for all sorts of news leaders at every level of an organization to build trust in journalism in service of democracy.through its support of the first amendment, nla empowers news leaders to build diverse, sustainable newsrooms that use fact-based information to inform and engage the communities they reflect and serve.

What it reported doing in 2023

Membership: nla's members are individuals, and its board is elected by members. Many of nla's initiatives are carried out by its committees. It also operates projects coordinated by staff with advice from committees and the board. The news leaders association advances the cause of quality, independent professional journalism. Founded in 1922 to defend the profession from unjust assault, nla is primarily an organization of newsroom leaders in the united states, with members from canada and mexico, central and south america welcome as well.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
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: 79
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: NotEnoughData
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 6th 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: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • 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: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -13% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -29.5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 18 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2012 to 2023
  • 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.

  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.