Online Publishers Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 134182652
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6464731000
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,300,906
- Expenses
- $4,116,701
- Assets
- $5,218,189
- Liabilities
- $3,401,446
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
41 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JASON KINT (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JASON KINT (CEO): $580,946 total reported compensation
- LISA KERR (SVP MARKETING DEVELOPMENT): $501,308 total reported compensation
- CHRISTOPHER PEDIGO (DIRECTOR GOV'T AFFAIRS): $384,677 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The primary purpose of digital content next (dcn) is to help create a favorable business climate for digital media publishers. Dcn acts as a voice for its members before the advertising community, the press, the government, and the public. Through research and communications, dcn helps its members compete in the marketplace for advertising services, and works to communicate the value of quality online content sites to all the constituencies we address on behalf of our members.alf of our members.
What it reported doing in 2024
During 2024, dcn continued to aggregate and publish its benchmark trends across dcn members' digital buisinesses on mobile, desktop and video. Advocate around competition and ai developments and product concerns. Dcn also released external customer research on the subscription economy and the changes to audience development. Other private activities for our membership in addition to board meetings include a range of virtual and in-person member events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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: 71
- Accountability: 77
- 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: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.3%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.27; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.65; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 54%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 35 of 35 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $581K · 41 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $180K reported
- Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.