Scott County Telephone Cooperative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 540557573
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2019
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019
- Location
- Gate City, VA, USA
- Phone
- 2764529119
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,179,083
- Expenses
- $9,179,083
- Assets
- $34,053,199
- Liabilities
- $18,898,242
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Kilgore (President)
- Toby Hilton (Vice President)
- William J Franklin (Chief Executive Officer)
Highest reported compensation
- William J Franklin (Chief Executive Officer): $180,135 total reported compensation
- Daniel E Odom (Chief Financial Officer): $156,366 total reported compensation
- William Johnson (Treasurer): $26,880 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Scott County Telephone Cooperative makes telephone service and facilities available to the widest practical number of users on a non-profit, cooperative basis.
What it reported doing in 2019
Scott County Telephone Cooperative's service area included approximately 545 square miles in Scott County, 110 square miles in Russell County and 15 square miles in Wise and Dickenson County. The cooperative provided to its members, telecommunications services, that included dial tone, IP dial-tone, video and broadband services along with long-distance service.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% 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: 76
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 47
- 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; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.71; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.55; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.9%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $180K · 15 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.3M reported
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2010 to 2019
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.