Texas Association of Broadcasters
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 746062502
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5123229944
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,994,337
- Expenses
- $2,806,006
- Assets
- $4,701,409
- Liabilities
- $710,899
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
50 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- OSCAR RODRIGUEZ (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- OSCAR RODRIGUEZ (PRESIDENT): $360,689 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL SCHNEIDER (VP LEGIS AFF): $191,757 total reported compensation
- BETH BOBBITT (VP MEMBER SV): $166,638 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Tab strives to promote and protect a favorable economic and regulatory climate for broadcasting and educates members and the public at large about the opportunities available and advancements possible through the efforts of free, over-the-air broadcast operations.
What it reported doing in 2025
Member services - members have access to legal advice on topics ranging from the first amendment, newsgathering and advertising disclosures, to labor laws, state tax policy and fcc regulatory compliance. Members also have access to technical assistance with the emergency alert system, resources necessary for recruiting a diverse workforce, and a voluntary assessment of compliance with fcc technical regulations. In addition, members receive regular briefings on key insights into state and federal policymaking and benefit from year-round governmental relations advocacy before state and federal policymakers addressing the industry's varied interests.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 90% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.3%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.68; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 34.1%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 37 of 37 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $361K · 50 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $364K reported
- Consistency: 14 of 15 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.