Syndicated Network Television Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133196564
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2014
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2122593740
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,690
- Expenses
- $2,121,098
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BARBARA ARGENTINO (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MITCH BURG (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MITCH BURG (PRESIDENT): $547,739 total reported compensation
- JORDAN HARRIS (DIRECTOR OF MARKETING): $267,130 total reported compensation
- HADASSA GERBER (EXEC VP RESEARCH): $180,527 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The association operates to promote the development, preservation and maintenance of the advertiser-supported television industry throughout the united states
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- 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: 77
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 2
- Growth: 0
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: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- 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: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -37,177.6%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 46.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -25.5% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -22.6% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $548K · 6 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $548K reported
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2010 to 2014
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.