Sable Media Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
900796346
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Sacramento, CA, USA
Phone
9514882182
Rating
60
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,869,438
Expenses
$1,670,125
Assets
$1,262,481
Liabilities
$113,507

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Toron Joset Mason (President)

People named in this filing

  • Toron Joset Mason (President)
  • Stephen Matthew Carrigan (Secretary)
  • Maury Hicks (Treasurer)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to provide preschools to high schools with modern enrichment programs using media arts as our platform. The purpose is to provide our clients accesibility, guidance, and education through community resources and training.

What it reported doing in 2025

Program 1. In 2012 SABLE Media founded KBTS.TV, Kids Behind The Scenes Television, a program whose purpose is a program whose purpose is to educate the public in digital media art forms, telecommunication projects, and performances. Our mission is to provide preschools to high schools with modern enrichment programs using media arts as our platform. To inspire and encourage young people to express their creativity as they become more confident and outgoing individuals. Program 2. In 2018 SABLE Media developed a new innovative day program called ASCEND. This unique community-based program is for young clients with developmental disabilities. The programs emphasis is on digital media, visual arts, telecommunications, and technology. The purpose is to provide our clients accessibility, guidance, and education through community resources and training.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and a relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 54
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 18
  • Sustainability: 51
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 57.7%; rating input score 58
  • Program expense ratio: 64.6%; rating input score 65
  • 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: Limited
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • 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: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 10.7%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 29.8% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 28% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 33.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 57.7% of revenue deployed · 64.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • 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: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.
  • Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.