Texans for Economic Progress
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270004339
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8005751620
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $65,232
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- ROBERT HOWDEN (DIRECTOR/PRES/EXEC DIR)
- SANDRA HAVERLAH (DIRECTOR/SECRETARY)
- CHELSEA MCCULLOUGH COLLIER (DIRECTOR/TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promote public policies that foster communications competition; promote robust development of technology info structure; and benefit consumers through lower prices, better quality and greater choice.
What it reported doing in 2018
Education of the public and public officials on issues impacting competition in communications.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 30
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 2
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 80.4%; rating input score 80
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.1%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.3% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -15.5% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -12.9% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $52K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2013 to 2018
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.