North English Cooperative Telephone
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 420441580
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- North English, IA, USA
- Phone
- 3196643821
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,033,229
- Expenses
- $991,362
- Assets
- $4,895,302
- Liabilities
- $495,314
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROGER LORTZ (PRESIDENT)
- TERRY AYERS (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MARK ALLISON (GENERAL MANAGER): $106,267 total reported compensation
- ROGER LORTZ (PRESIDENT): $1,100 total reported compensation
- DAVID KNIPFER (DIRECTOR): $1,100 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide communication services to its members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 94% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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: 100
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 60
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; 63rd 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: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.1%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.94; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.4%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $106K · 8 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $233K reported
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.