Scala Media Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471823697
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2022
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Ridgewood, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6464219861
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Television
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $61,191
- Expenses
- $70,973
- Assets
- $18,448
- Liabilities
- $42,400
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SILVANO COLOMBO (President)
People named in this filing
- SILVANO COLOMBO (President)
- GRAZIA LECCA (Treasurer)
- CARMEN RADICE (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To bring an italian catholic television to all italian homes in america.
What it reported doing in 2022
To bring an italian catholic television channel to all the italian homes in america, broadcasting the italian programs of telepace and tv2000, the official catholic channels.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.3; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.7% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $72K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2015 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.