Tennessee Telecommunications Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 626047231
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- McMinnville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 9312352987
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $870,264
- Expenses
- $862,698
- Assets
- $159,556
- Liabilities
- $61,358
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mark Patterson (President)
- Charlie Boring (Past President)
- Karen Furman (Vice President)
- Carrie Huckeby (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Carrie Huckeby (Executive Director): $120,989 total reported compensation
- Trevor Bonnstetter (Government Affairs Directo): $114,000 total reported compensation
- Levoy Knowles (Government Affairs Lobbyis): $40,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Tennessee Telecommunications Association encourages development, fosters and stimulates growth, protects mutual interests, and promotes uniformity in accounting, operating, maintenance, construction, and administrative practices of member companies.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Tennessee Telecommunications Association provided member services to 16 tier one members and 145 associate members. These services included hosting an annual convention and meetings for members and publishing membership directories.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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: 90
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 21
- 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; 63rd 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: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.9%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $121K · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.