Student Television Network Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263084041
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Carlsbad, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6158547378
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,079,273
- Expenses
- $1,010,338
- Assets
- $362,185
- Liabilities
- $15,963
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAUL KASS (President)
- PHIL BERMAN (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- PAUL KASS (President)
- PHIL BERMAN (Vice President)
- JENNIFER SUZUKI (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To support, to promote, and to recognize excellence in scholastic broadcasting, in creative video & film making, and in interactive mediums in a global world.
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide education and outreach by maintaining a website for teachers and students for online discussions, newsletters, national contest activities, and provide our members with educational and other resources including workshops.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.3%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 82.6%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 6.4%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.3% of revenue deployed · 82.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $835K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.
- Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.