Nowcastsa

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
900585154
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2022
Forms available
Form 990 2022
Location
San Antonio, TX, USA
Phone
2108592359
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Media, Communications Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$0
Assets
$5,519
Liabilities
$10,870

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

People named in this filing

  • CHARLES ANDREWS (CHAIR)
  • CRYSTAL DARBY (TREASUER)
  • REBECCA FLORES (BOARD MEMBER)

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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Nowcastsa is an online news organization operated to educate and inform san antonio residents and promote and facilitate an inclusive civic conversation.

What it reported doing in 2022

Nowcastsa believes that access to data and information is essential to a healthy democracy. Nowcastsa.com published 342 educational articles, maps and events and reached 48,857 unique visitors in 2021. The most viewed content was an interactive map showing voting locations and free water distribution sites, and stories regarding winter weather information and coverage of the may 5, 2021 and november 2, 2021 local elections. In addition, nowcastsa produced 11 live webcasts and 29 videos on its youtube channel that was watched a total of 118,500 times for a total of 5,100 hours. The most viewed videos produced this year were world refugee day, city council candidate forums and the fiesta especial royal court coronation. In 2021 nowcastsa's team produced two live webcasts on crowdcast.io, a mayoral candidate town hall and a district 2 city council candidate forum. The broadcasts were seen by 96 live viewers and replayed by 18 viewers. In 2021 nowcastsa hosted four candidate forums for mayoral, district 1 and district 2 city council candidates. Around 200 people attended in-person events. In 2021 nowcastsa provided more than 6,670 hours of on-the-job training to 10 interns from five local colleges and universities.

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: 81
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 0
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

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

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 13th 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: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • 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: 1.97; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -14.9% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -10.7% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -37% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 10 of 11 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2010 to 2022
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 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.