South Carolina Cable and Broadband Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 570754633
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- West Columbia, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8037943712
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $283,845
- Expenses
- $119,404
- Assets
- $617,022
- Liabilities
- $1,878
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- MIKE CHOWANIEC (DIRECTOR)
- AMY AVERILL (DIRECTOR)
- JULIA AYERS (VICE-CHAIR)
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
Association for individuals, firms, and/or corporations in the state of South Carolina who have a common interest in providing telecommunication services, including, but not limited to video, broadband and telephone, to the general public by means of a cable entity. The association also sponsors educational meetings, which includes strategic planning to ensure that the entities interests are protected and marketed.
What it reported doing in 2025
Sccta provides services specifically created to meet the diverse requirements of the various membership segments within the association. Among the many services sccta offers its members are: - representation before the South Carolina general assembly, state regulators and congress - member education - pr/media outreach - industry/market research
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 81
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.1%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 89.5%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 57.9%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.17; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 36.1% of revenue deployed · 89.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $107K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.